Wednesday, March 29, 2023 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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Age-Friendly Health
What policy solutions are there to address worker shortages, employee turnover, and day-to-day variations in staffing levels in nursing homes and residential care settings?
Our Age-Friendly Health series, which is produced with the support of the John A. Hartford Foundation, aims to improve care for older adults with empirical studies and thoughtful commentary that spans the full range of care settings, including primary and specialty care, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home and community-based care.
Two recent papers in the series cover staffing in nursing homes:
The Age-Friendly Health series will run through June 2025 and cover topics including financing models, coverage, family caregiving, technology, workforce, serious illness care, and social determinants of health, among others.
Visit our website to learn more about the submission guidelines.
A new Health Affairs Forefront series titled "New Challenges for Health Care" will examine emerging issues that are facing decision makers at provider organizations, insurers, public agencies, purchasers, and academic institutions in the health care sector.
The articles are written by faculty members at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, a leading research medical school, and the series is supported by Icahn Mount Sinai.
In the first article of the series, David Putrino considers the long-term consequence of mild SARS-CoV-2 infection and how public health departments can treat and manage syndromic long COVID.
If you're enjoying the free articles published on Forefront, bookmark the website to never miss an update.
Community & State is
the business segment of UnitedHealthcare that provides health care coverage for the economically disadvantaged, the medically underserved and those without the benefit of employer-funded health plans. These state-based health plans meet local needs, while leveraging the national resources of UnitedHealthcare.
Michael S. Gerber reviews Thomas Fisher's memoir, The Emergency, which details his experience working in an ER department in Chicago during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lalita Abhyankar examines Timothy J. Hoff's book Searching For The Family Doctor which aggregates stories within the historical development of Family Medicine as a specialty.
Henry Claypool and Mary Lou Breslin review physician and researcher Lisa Iezzoni's book Making Their Days Happen, which presents a frank and comprehensive examination of the role paid personal assistance services (PAS) play for people with disability in the United States.
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