You can watch the presentation by Joanne Lynn, MD, on improving care for our frail elderly given at the 2013 Bioethics Symposium.
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Jul 172013
Testimony of Joanne Lynn, MD, MA, MS Director, Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness Altarum Institute For the Commission on Long-Term Care July 17, 2013 Hearing on Populations in Need of LTSS and Service Delivery Issues Good afternoon, members of the Commission. I am Dr. Joanne Lynn, and on behalf of the Center for […]
Jun 242013
by Dr. Muriel Gillick A whopping 86 million Americans are family caregivers for an adult with significant health problems, according to a new report. Untrained, unpaid, and unlicensed, they take care of some of the sickest patients in the U.S. Just under half of these caregivers provide complex medical care: this is a level of care that […]
Jun 142013
By Candace Baldwin For 60 years, Dorothy Weinstein ran a boarding house for medical students in Boston. But by the time she reached 100, Dorothy decided she needed help making beds and cooking for the students. Her son, who worried for her health and safety, thought that it might be time for her to move […]
May 302013
by Anne Montgomery There’s a reason why the nation has convened a White House Conference on Aging (WHCOA) once a decade, and it’s this: Historically, these seminal events – which involve thousands of people feeding in ideas from communities across the country – have spurred creative consensus at a national level about how apparently intractable […]
May 232013
By Anne Montgomery Leaning into the podium at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York on May 14, Judy Feder, professor of public policy at Georgetown University, is poised and intent. She is speaking to a room full of researchers, advocates and academics who are hoping to ignite a national conversation about […]
May 022013
Last Sunday’s Washington Post (April 28, 2013) featured a long, thoughtful article by Ezra Klein describing an effective house visits program, Health Quality Partners, that is about to lose its CMS funding. The article, “If This Was a Pill, You’d Do Anything to Get It,” (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/28/if-this-was-a-pill-youd-do-anything-to-get-it/) generated several hundred comments and lots of social media […]
Apr 302013
After a week of reading about the effects of sequestration on air travelers—the inconvenience, the waits—we were struck by today’s [April 30, 2013] Huffington Post article on how sequestration is playing out on the lives of a more vulnerable group of people: America’s elders. When last we checked (around 3 pm, ET), more than 10,000 […]
Apr 182013
By Anne Montgomery Call Ezekiel (“Zeke”) Emanuel an optimist. Currently serving as Vice Provost and professor of bioethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, much of his career has been about bucking mainstream medical thinking. These days, Emanuel is using his background in medicine and ethics to lead conversations among health care policymakers […]
Jan 232013
By Dr. Joanne Lynn The latest issue of JAMA features our paper describing an exciting and successful initiative from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and fourteen of its quality improvement organizations (QIOs). Grounded in quality improvement methodology—plan-do-study-act–this unusual project offers many insights for those aiming to reduce avoidable readmissions. And its raises […]