Dear John,

Join Health Affairs tomorrow May 13 for another live taping of A Health Podyssey.

A Health Podyssey's Rob Lott will chat with Andrew Ryan about his paper in the May 2025 edition of Health Affairs and take questions from a live audience. This event is free for all.

Today's Featured Articles

A Promising Prescription For Older Adults: Social Connection

Michele Cohen Marill

In Price Negotiations, Medicare Should Reassess How It Determines A ‘Qualifying Single Source Drug’

T. Joseph Mattingly II

Creating A Pathway To Scale Up Acute Hospital Care At Home

Tara Jain and Ronald Paulus

More on Age-Friendly Health

The Number Of Family Caregivers Helping Older US Adults Increased From 18 Million To 24 Million, 2011–22

Jennifer L. Wolff et al. (February 2025)

Suicide Rates Are High And Rising Among Older Adults In The US

Chloe Zilkha et al. (March 2024)

Hospice Improves Care Quality For Older Adults With Dementia In Their Last Month Of Life

Krista L. Harrison et al. (June 2022)

Upcoming Events

• 5/27: Lunch & Learn: How Can the New Age-Friendly Hospital Measure Transform the Inpatient Experience with Katherine A. Ornstein and Clifford Ko (OPEN TO ALL)
  
  
• 5/29: FDA's First 100 Days Under the Second Trump Administration with moderator Rachel Sachs joined by panelists Richard Hughes IV and Arti K. Rai (INSIDER EXCLUSIVE)

May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month. We are elevating AANHPI voices in the public health workforce.

In this Narrative Matters, Cevadne Lee reflects on feelings of fear and neglect throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, as a Chinese-American in healthcare.