BREWER, Maine -- Amy Cotton, a nurse practitioner and director of Operations and Senior Service Quality for Eastern Maine Healthcare System's Continuum of Care, will lead The World Congress Leadership Summit on Innovative Care Delivery Models for the Aging Population, Nov. 7-8 in Vienna, Va. According to a study by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the elderly make up close to 13 percent of the U.S. population but consume 36 percent of the nation's total personal health care expenses. The problem is largely attributed to a much higher proportion of elderly with expensive chronic conditions. During the summit, health care leaders from across the world will focus on developing innovative care models to better serve the elderly population while simultaneously lowering health ...
ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- HRSA recently awarded $231,800 to North American Management (NAM), based in Alexandria, Va., for its Health and the Aging project. The project will provide training and technical assistance to increase the capacity and improve the performance of HRSA's primary care health center grantees and other safety net providers eligible to become such grantees in meeting the specialized health care needs of the elderly population. NAM's Health and the Aging project will:
The financial travails that have impacted TennCare, the state's health insurance program for low-income Tennesseans, have been well documented over the last decade. The state has taken several steps, some painful, to keep the health plan solvent.
[James Burden] sees a need for better education in geriatric dentistry. "It's not a recognized specialty like orthodontics," Burden said. "Even in dental schools the training for geriatric patients is minimal. Giving geriatric dentistry more prominence in dental school is one step. "There's a lot of potential for the dental schools to make a difference," [Ira B. Lamster] said. "The biggest problem is that we have so much to do in dental school. We have so much to teach the students in those four years that no one thing can dominate. It becomes a real challenge to cover anything in great depth." Most of the work is restorative work; prevention is pretty much gone," he said. "They've had 60-70 years of fillings. It's much more complicated work, it's much more expensive work."
REDFORD, Mich. - Linda Johnson is never going back. After 14 years as a certified nursing assistant - the bottom of the food chain in the nursing-home culture - she has tasted the future.
It's a duty that many of us will eventually assume -- that of caregiver of an elderly loved one. The responsibility comes with many emotional demands, but there's also a financial cost caregivers must contend with -- and should prepare for in advance.
America is facing a crisis that will make the federal budget deficit look like a simple bank overdraft fee. If we don't figure out how to provide financial support to the millions of family members taking care of senior citizens with chronic conditions or disabilities, we will have caregivers so overwhelmed that they will be forced to stop helping their elderly relatives. That cost of care will then transfer to the government, and this would mean astronomically higher health care costs or more people being placed in nursing homes, according to a new report from AARP's Public Policy Institute.
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