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How value-based care can transform health care for older adults

Permanente Medicine

In a commentary published in Becker’s Hospital Review, Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, and Ramin Davidoff, MD, co-CEOs of The Permanente Federation, explain why value-based care provides a blueprint for ensuring our health care system can deliver high-quality care to the growing population of older adults.

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

“We step into places where other providers may not, and geriatrics is a prime example of that.” But in the rest of the country, they need to have a collaborative agreement with or be under the supervision of another health care provider to provide care to older adults. Today, about 18% of the U.S.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Acute care is called acute care for a reason. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides.