Articles and Interviews: WebMD/JAHF Survey News Coverage Shows Providers and Caregivers Need Better Awareness of Age-Friendly Care
Several news outlets have reported on findings from a recent WebMD / JAHF consumer survey on age-friendly care.
Healthcare Finance, for example, has published an article, "Providers and Caregivers Need Better Awareness of Age-Friendly Care." In the piece, Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, President of The John A. Hartford Foundation, noted that the survey of 2,361 patients aged 65 and older and 405 caregivers "showed older adults in the United States have a lower quality of life because they, and their care team, simply don't know that there's a more age-friendly pathway."
"Age-friendly care," the article says, "is defined by the survey's creators as addressing the '4Ms': what matters to patients, promoting mobility, ensuring medications don't interfere with quality of life, and treating dementias, depression and other mentation-associated conditions."
To read the Healthcare Finance article, click here.
To read the survey findings, click here.
To read additional articles and interviews:
- In HIT Consultant, click here.
- In Business Record, click here.
- In McKnight's Long-Term Care News, click here.
- In Stat Morning Rounds, click here.
- In National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) Newswire, click here.
- In International Council on Active Aging, click here.
- On Grantmakers in Health (GIH), click here.
- On the Lown Institute blog, click here.
- On Central Illinois WMBDNews, click here.
- On WKBW Buffalo, click here.
- On KGUN 9 Tucson News, click here.
- On FOX 7 Austin, click here.
