Health Affairs Publishes Age-Friendly Health Paper in May Issue
Health Affairs has published a paper in its May journal issue titled "Does Assisted Living Provide Assistance And Promote Living?" as part of its Age-Friendly Health Series.
Assisted living is the largest residential provider of long-term care in the US and faces increasing challenges related to resident needs, staffing shortages, complex regulations, consumer support needs, and insufficient financing and accessibility.
In their commentary, Zimmerman et al. provide recommendations in four areas to help assisted living in its promised assistance and quality of living for older adults. These areas are workforce, regulations and government, consumer needs and roles, and financing and accessibility. They detail policy implications to address each of these areas to help today's assisted living adequately provide assistance and promote living.
The Age-Friendly Health series aims to inform health policies and covers new issues related to building more equitable, high-quality health systems for older adults. Other 2024 articles in this series are:
- "New CMS Nursing Home Ownership Data: Major Gaps And Discrepancies," by Amanda C. Chen, Robert J. Skinner, Robert Tyler Braun, R. Tamara Konetzka, David G. Stevenson, and David C. Grabowski, March 2024
- "Nursing Homes Increasingly Rely On Staffing Agencies For Direct Care Nursing," by John R. Bowblis, Christopher S. Brunt, Huiwen Xu, Robert Applebaum, and David C. Grabowski, February 2024
- "Nursing Home Staffing: Share Of Immigrant Certified Nursing Assistants Grew As US-Born Staff Numbers Fell, 2010–21," by Hankyung Jun and David C. Grabowski, January 2024
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