Health Care for Seniors Archives

The Meteoric Rise of Private Medicare Advantage Insurance

What’s gained and what’s lost as private insurers manage an increasingly large share of the Medicare program?

Soleil recaps two more fascinating studies from the 2023 ASHEcon conference.

Medicare is testing some major changes to its 40-year-old hospice benefit.

What have we learned from the pandemic-feuled expansion of hospital-at-home care?

What stops seriously ill Black patients and their families from getting the care they want in life and in death?

An overhaul of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit will lower costs for seniors while changing incentives for insurers and drugmakers.

There’s a severe shortage of people to care for older Americans. Could providing workers with new career pathways be part of the solution?

Leslie Walker shares four research studies to explain the stakes of Medicare open enrollment.

Jasmine Travers share new research that explores the effect of state vaccine mandates on vaccination rates and staffing changes in nursing homes.

Yaa Akosa Antwi shares research on nursing home deaths during COVID suggesting even well-intentioned policies can have unintended consequences.