Health Affairs Publishes Four Age-Friendly Health Papers in May Issue
The May 2022 issue of Health Affairs includes four 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 four Health Affairs papers in this issue are:
- Christine Ritchie and Bruce Leff—Commentary: Home-Based Care Reimagined: A Full-Fledged Health Care Delivery Ecosystem Without Walls. Drs. Ritchie and Leff describe what a care delivery system for elders focused on the home and community would look like, and they present evidence to support its importance. They define the principles that should guide its development and discuss what it would take to create it, noting that the current facility-based system, “although convenient for clinicians, [has] turned out to be suboptimal for many patients.”
- Helena Temkin-Greener et al—End-Of-Life Care In Assisted Living Communities: Race And Ethnicity, Dual Enrollment Status, And State Regulations. Among assisted living residents enrolled in fee-for-service Medicare who died in 2018–19, Dr. Temkin-Greener and coauthors report that dual Medicare-Medicaid enrollees were significantly less likely to die at home and more likely to die in hospitals or nursing homes compared with non–dual enrollees. Further, “Black residents, regardless of dual enrollment status, were significantly less likely than White residents to have been enrolled in hospice at death.”
- Jonathan Bor—Entry Point: The Aging of the U.S. Prisons and Jail Population: A Public Health Crisis. Dr. Bor describes the public health crisis of an aging prison population.
- Rachael Bedard et al: Aging In Jail: Retrospective Analysis Of Older Patients In New York City’s Jail System, 2015-19. Dr. Bedard and coauthors provide a first-of-its-kind overview of the health of older adults incarcerated in New York City’s jail system.
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