Physician Biases Toward People with Disability and Implications for Care Delivery
Examines findings from a nationwide survey on physicians' attitudes toward people with disability.
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April 2021
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Building a Culture of Person-Centered Care: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go
Researchers share their insights on whether older adults’ health care preferences are being taken into account and how health systems can become more person-centered.
Blog
February 2021
Evidence for the 4Ms: Interactions and Outcomes Across the Care Continuum
The 4Ms approach developed for the Age-Friendly Health System model — what matters, medication, mentation, mobility — has a robust evidence base for providing quality care to older adults.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Interventions at Hospital Discharge to Guide Caregivers in Medication Management for People Living with Dementia: A Systematic Review
Medication management interventions that support caregivers of people with dementia at care transitions can help reduce readmissions, caregiver burden, and use of high-risk medication.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Physicians’ Perceptions of People with Disability and Their Health Care
Many physicians report low confidence in caring for patients with disability and negative perceptions about quality of life with a disability, which may reflect biased views that potentially contribute to persistent health disparities.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Building Authentic and Mutually Beneficial Partnerships with Complex Care Consumers
Outlines key steps health systems can take to build relationships with complex care consumers.
Play
January 2021
Tracking Progress on Person-Centered Care for Older Adults: How Are We Doing?
Reveals inequities in how aging adults’ care preferences are taken into account based on race/ethnicity, income, health insurance status, and other variables.
Brief/Report
Medical Care at Home Comes of Age
Provides an overview of home-based medical care models, the patients that they serve, and their robust evidence base.
Brief/Report
“Eyes in the Home”: Addressing Social Complexity in Veterans Affairs Home-Based Primary Care
Home-based primary care programs enable care teams to gain insights on a variety of social factors that impact older adults’ health, which allows them to better tailor care to meet patient needs.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Adopting a Trauma-Informed Approach to Improve Patient Care: Foundational Organizational-Level Steps
Offers practical recommendations for providers and other health care organizations interested in taking foundational steps to become more trauma-informed.
Play
November 2020
Supporting Family Caregivers Providing Complex Care
Includes promising practices, recommendations, vignettes, and other helpful tools to assist health systems in supporting family caregivers providing complex care.
Implementation Tool
The PACE Response to COVID-19 Calls for Policy Actions Increasing Access and Affordability
Highlights PACE programs’ efforts to redesign care during the COVID-19 pandemic and presents policy options that may help to expand access to the programs in the future.
Blog
October 2020
A Systematic Review of Intensive Outpatient Care Programs for High-Need, High-Cost Patients
Demonstrates that intensive outpatient care programs show promise in reducing utilization and costs and improving patient outcomes for high-need, high-cost populations.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Practice Considerations for Trauma-Informed Care at End of Life
Applying principles of trauma-informed care for patients at end of life.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Trauma-Informed Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
Trauma-informed telehealth can help mitigate negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Age-Friendly Health Systems: Guide to Using the 4Ms in the Care of Older Adults
Step-by-step guide with robust tools for health systems to apply the 4Ms framework to deliver age-friendly, evidence-based care for older adults.
Implementation Tool
Caring for Older Adults with Complex Needs in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from PACE Innovations
Highlighted innovations adopted by PACE organizations during the pandemic to provide care for older adults with complex needs.
Webinar
Use of General Primary Care, Specialized Primary Care, and Other Veterans Affairs Services Among High-Risk Veterans
Integrated health care systems can better support high-risk patients by embedding high-risk patient care within general primary care and mental health care.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Implementing Best Practices in Dementia Care
Clinical tools, training resources, and case studies of evidence-based care models that support people living with dementia and their caregivers.
Implementation Tool
Empowering Goals of Care for Vulnerable Communities During COVID-19
Details the proactive approach of Cambridge Health Alliance, a public ambulatory care and hospital system in the Boston area, to initiate goals of care conversations with high-risk patients in their respiratory clinic.
Blog
June 2020