An AARP Institute for Public Policy study highlights the increasing role of informal caregivers in health care and the burdens incurred by those caregivers.
A CMS demonstration for health care focused on intensive care, for Medicare beneficiaries with heavy health needs shows early promise.
A brief from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality looks at trends in health care spending for the elderly.
A program to provide home-based primary care for Medicare recipients resulted in lower spending, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Nursing home residents have some of the highest health care costs and often have frequent hospitalizations. An Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality brief looks at characteristics of these hospitalizations.
Another in our series of Potpourris, tasty, succulent morsels of health data food, including this week the effect of mammography screening, improving health and health costs, state costs to run health insurance exchanges, family caregiving and the costs of fixing Medicare’s physician reimbursement.
Another outstanding collection of summaries from the health research literature, including this week, physicians’ difficulty in understanding the benefits of screening tests, physicians’ feelings about health information technology, AARP’s latest report on prices paid by seniors for commonly used drugs, the real cost of health reform, variation in outcomes and costs of knee replacements and shared decision-making in two common clinical situations.
One of the causes of rapid health spending growth is the aging of our population. A new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality reviews the literature on home and community-based care for the elderly versus institutional care in nursing homes.