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The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Dear John,
In acknowledgment of National Family Caregivers Month, we are looking
back at recent Health Affairs content about caregiving.
Caregiving
November is National Family Caregivers Month. Today, we are looking back
at Health Affairs content from this past year that focus on caregiving.
Older adults and people with disabilities rely on a combination of
formal (paid) and informal care, with the latter often provided by
family members who support them in their activities of daily living.
In a September 2021 paper, HwaJung Choi and colleagues found that
**Black elders with dementia were significantly less likely than their
peers of other races to have a nonworking, nondisabled spouse**available
to provide care
.
They also found that Hispanic elders with dementia were more likely than
non-Hispanic elders of any race to have an adult child living with them
at home who could provide care.
In August 2020, Courtney Van Houtven and coauthors published an article
examining trends in home care
from 2004 to 2016, in which they discovered that "
**formal home care receipt increased at almost twice the rate of receipt
of informal home care**, with a 6-percentage-point increase to 36.9
percent in 2016" among people requiring assistance.
Courtney Roman and coauthors penned a blog post in November 2020
identifying four elements key to accelerating state program changes to
support family caregivers
:
prioritize cross-sector engagement, identify leadership champions,
collaborate on shared goals, and establish robust data collection and
exchange.
Today on Health Affairs Blog, Anna Harvey discusses the need for
investment in research that can provide policy-relevant evidence about
the effects of mis- and disinformation
on health outcomes.
Katie Keith summarizes the coverage-related provisions
in the version of the Build Back Better Act that was passed by the House
on November 19.
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Your Daily Digest
Family Care Availability And Implications For Informal And Formal Care
Used By Adults With Dementia In The US
HwaJung Choi et al.
Informal And Formal Home Care For Older Adults With Disabilities
Increased, 2004-16
Courtney H. Van Houtven et al.
Strengthening Family Caregiving Policies And Programs Through State
Collaboration
Courtney Roman et al.
Combatting Health Misinformation And Disinformation: Building An
Evidence Base
Anna Harvey
House Passes Build Back Better Act
Katie Keith
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**Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicaid and CHIP
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Tsai and CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure recently coauthored a
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