The Better Care Playbook Blog: Advancing Health Equity for People Who Are Homebound
The Better Care Playbook has published a blog, "Advancing Health Equity for People Who Are Homebound," that discusses the various dimensions of the healthcare issues impacting this particularly vulnerable population.
Older adults who are homebound are often socially isolated, have unmet care needs, suffer from high mortality, and are invisible to health systems. They are frequently neglected when it comes to adequate healthcare delivery in a multitude of ways.
This blog post, by guest authors Christine Ritchie, MD, MSPH, Mongan Institute Center for Aging and Serious Illness, Harvard Medical School and Bruce Leff, MD, Center for Transformative Geriatric Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, highlights the epidemiology and characteristics of older adults who are homebound, inequities faced by this population and how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated inequities and offers a vision to reimagine health care delivery in this country to improve health equity for this population.
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