This weekly blog series is a roundup of recent news items and developments that I found interesting and would like to share.
Over Two Million More Long Term Care Workers Needed by 2030. Biggest need is in home and personal care aides, expert says.
Doctors Can Influence End of Life Care. Terminally ill patients of physicians who frequently refer to hospice more likely to choose it, study says.
Telemedicine Program Reduces Depression Symptoms in Adults with Diabetes
This is not good news! Are these numbers real or are we measuring disease burden more accurately? World’s Population Is Getting Sicker, Study Shows. People lose more “years of healthy life” to illness now than they did in the 1990s, global survey reports.
Please see this article about a new business designed to improve homecare. Honor lands Twenty Million Dollars for Senior In Home Care Agency
Please see the note from the American Telemedicine Association. Milestone: Most States Now Have Telehealth Parity Laws
See the Brookings note on the need for trained, well paid direct care heath workers. As US Population Ages, Direct Care Health Workers Bring Critical Skills and Value to Health System