Les Morgan, Author at MediCaring.org
- A Pragmatist’s Advice for Nursing Homes
- Altarum Invites Communities to Apply for Eldercare Planning Contracts
- Interim Reports on Aggregating Care Plans to Manage Supportive Care Services for Elders
- CARE Documentary
- America CARES: An Emerging Consensus-Based Approach to Moving a Family-Focused Caregiving Agenda Forward
- Implementing MediCaring Communities
- MediCaring Communities Proposal Shows Substantial Savings in Medicare Costs
- Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness Comments on MACRA
- MediCaring Communities: Getting What We Want and Need in Frail Old Age at an Affordable Cost
- Could MACRA Enable Care Models That Serve Frail Elders Well?
- Five Short Lines Position PACE for Broad Expansion
- From Hospital to Home: The Missing Element in Discharge Planning
- Don’t Accept Medical Errors as the Standard of Care for Frail Elders
- Just How Dysfunctional is Frail Elder Care in the U.S.?
- Stop Taking Caregivers for Granted!
- Purchasing Value – Not Yet Right for Medicare’s Frail Elders
- High and Worsening Symptom Prevalence in the Last Year of Life
- Senior Alert: A Swedish National Dashboard for Preventive Care for the Elderly
- Protecting Hospitals That Improve Population Health
- The Evidence That the Readmissions Rate (Readmissions/Hospital Discharges) Is Malfunctioning as a Performance Measure
- A Dangerous Malfunction in the Measure of Readmission Reduction
- Include Family Caregiving in the White House Working Families Initiative
- The IMPACT Bill, the BACPAC Proposal, and Why It Matters Where PAC Savings Go
- The Caregiver Corps Act of 2014
- Innovation Requires Shedding Established Patterns
- The Case for Care Plans
- Family Caregivers Need Care, Too
- Shaping Communities that Care for Frail Elders
- Building Outrage: Mad as Hell—and Then What?
- Multidisciplinary Teams Essential to MediCaring Work
- Paying The Price: Frailty is an Expensive Phase of Life
- The ElderBoard: Managing Care for Frail Elders
- The Case for Local Management in Care of Frail Elders
- A Future So Bright? Or So Old? Challenges for an Aging America
- Multidisciplinary Teams and Holistic Care for Frail Elders
- Very Old Adults Will Need Enhanced Social Services to Balance Medical Care
- The Very, Very Old: The Challenges of Increased Longevity
- Sink or Swim: We Urgently Need Better Care for Frail Elders
- Resources for Advance Care Planning include Handbook for Mortals
- Goodreads Start Here: Articles and Books about Improving Care for Frail Elders
- JAMA Theme Issue features MediCaring article by Dr. Joanne Lynn
- Improving Life for the Oldest Among Us: Altarum Roundtable Highlights Options
- All Systems Go? Use Community-Based Elder Care ACOs to Overhaul Long-Term Care
- Joanne Lynn, MD, speaks at the 2013 Bioethics Symposium
- Joanne Lynn’s Testimony before the Commission on Long-Term Care
- Who Cares for the Frail Elderly?
- Aging in Community: How the Village Model Relies on Neighborliness
- Time to Get Moving on a White House Conference on Aging
- No Disrespect: How Family Caregivers Can Improve Care Transitions
- Learn from Successful Outliers – or Shut them Down?
- Angry Yet? Sequestration Hits Meals on Wheels!
- An Eye to 2020: Where Will Health Care Reform Lead?
- JAMA Report Finds Community Collaboration Key to Reducing Hospitalizations and Rehospitalizations
- Readmissions Count: Should CMS Revise Its Calculations?
- End of the Improvement Standard: An overview of Jimmo vs. Sebelius
- Patient Activation Measure: An Effective Way to Promote Self-Management
- Keeping Track of Dementia Patients: Would a Universal Identifier Help?
- Reaching Rural Residents: Improving Care Transitions in Western New York State
- SAGE: Bridging the Divide between Acute Medical Care and Social Services in Northeast Ohio
- Aging in place with in-kind work
- Hospital Pharmacist Plays a Role in New-York Based CCTP Program
- PEACE: Effective Collaboration Between Medical Services and Social Services
- Baby Boomers and the Demographic “Cannonball”
- Quality of Life Investments for Frail and Disabled Elders
- “The Last Word” Author Roundtable Video
- Health Care Reforms Need the Input of Elderly Persons and their Caregivers!
- Get Started: How You Can Improve the Lives of Frail Elders and their Families Today
- What Does It Matter to You: Patient Activation and Good Health Outcomes
- Early Days: Chicago-Based CCTP Program Describes The Work To Date
- The Case for Identifying Family Caregivers on Medical Records
- SASH: How One Community Is Meeting the Challenge of Care for Frail Elders
- Coalition Building for Care Transitions: Communities Work to Help Frail Elders
- After CLASS: A Proposed Long-Term Care Insurance System
- Family Caregivers: The Missing Link in Transitional Care
- MATCH: AHRQ Toolkit Offers Guidance for Standardizing Medication Reconciliation
- Dr. Joanne Lynn on the Need for Rapid Follow-up Post Discharge
- Southwest Ohio Care Transitions Collaborative Talks to Medicaring about CCTP Award
- Dr. Joanne Lynn on the Role of Palliative Care in Improving Care Transitions
- CMS Announced First Awards for CCTP Funding
- Dr. Joanne Lynn Explains the 10th Statement of Work for QIOs
- Dr. Joanne Lynn on the Community-Based Care Transitions Program
- CLASS Act gone, but costs of aging remain
- How to Build a Community Coalition to Address Care Transitions
- Room to Grow: Palliative Care’s Place in Care Transitions
- Dr. Joanne Lynn Highlights Project RED to Improve Discharge Planning
- AARP Factsheet Summarizes Health Care Reform Opportunities that Support Family Caregivers
- Dr. Joanne Lynn on the Naylor Model: How the Transitional Care Model Works
- How Patient Activation Can Improve Care Transitions
- Dr. Joanne Lynn’s Overview of Approaches that Work to Improve Transitions
- Reducing Readmissions from SNF to Hospital: Promising Effort Includes Palliative Care Consults
- Care Management Effort Integrates Care for Low-Income Elderly Patients
- Understanding a Health Care System As a Path to Improving It
- Tech challenge seeks to improve care transitions
- Building the Will for Change: A Video from Dr. Joanne Lynn
- Why Improve Care Transitions: A Video from Dr. Joanne Lynn
- Care Transitions and Altarum Institute Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness
- Can Care Transitions Be Improved by Focusing on a Single Diagnostic Category?
- Better Care Transitions: Starting Points for Clinicians
- Details of LTQA Innovative Communities National Summit
- Care Transitions Workbook
- Applying Ostrom’s Model to the Challenges of Health Care
- Tips on blended rate for 3026 applicants
- Community-Based Care Transitions Program – Section 3026 funding
- AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program site for consumers launches
- Evidence-Based Interventions: Replicate or Adapt?
- CFMC releases Care Transitions Toolkit