Health Affairs In 2019 Editor’s Picks Includes Article from JAHF-Supported Series
"Health Affairs In 2019: Editor’s Picks" includes an article from the JAHF-sponsored Aging & Health series on spousal caregivers caregiving alone in the last years of life.
"As Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief, I enjoy reading hundreds of articles each year...My top ten goes beyond our “most-read” and “most-shared” articles, which tend to focus on costs and spending. I like articles that ask particularly interesting questions, explore underreported issues, or analyze unique data sets," notes Alan Weil.
Dr. Katherine Ornstein and colleagues found that in the final years of their spouses’ lives, more than half of surviving spouses were the only person providing care in the home to their spouse, and these caregivers had health conditions of their own. "As the population ages, this paper highlights the urgency of considering the family unit when planning community-based care for people with serious illness."
To read Health Affairs 2019 Editor's Picks, click here.
To read the Aging & Health Spousal Caregiving paper, click here.
To go to the Aging & Health series, click here.
To learn more about JAHF's support of Health Affairs, click here.
