Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Hartford and Atlantic Funded Study Finds Four in Ten Older Adults Have Trouble Managing Health Needs
Nearly four in 10 older adults say that managing their health care needs is difficult for them or their families, that medical appointments or tests get delayed or don’t get done, or that all of the requirements of their health care are too much to handle, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests.
The findings are published in the October issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
“Medical providers must be aware that when they ask older adults to take a new medication or suggest they see another doctor that this is happening in a broader context of treatment,” says study author Jennifer L. Wolff, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School. . .