Health Affairs Age-Friendly Health Series: Three Papers in May Issue
The May 2021 issue of Health Affairs includes three Age-Friendly Health series papers.
The series includes health policy research, analysis and commentary related to building health systems that provide high quality evidence-based health care to older adults. The three Health Affairs papers in this issue are:
- In Medicare Beneficiaries With Self-Reported Functional Hearing Difficulty Have Unmet Health Care Needs, the authors examined how hearing loss affects older adults’ health outcomes and quality of care.
- Researchers found that nurse staffing hours per resident day remained steady or increased slightly during the pandemic in Nursing Home Staffing Levels Did Not Change Significantly During COVID-19.
- A Narrative Matters essay, The Hidden Curriculum Of Hospice: Die Fast, Not Slow, describes how the hospice model fails when patients die more slowly than expected.
The Age-Friendly Health series runs through June 30, 2022. Authors are encouraged to submit articles and blogs on topics related to age-friendly care, family caregiving, and serious illness and end-of-life care, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and health care equity and disparities. Learn more about submissions and read other Age-Friendly Health series articles.
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