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SRC sought a pilot partnership with Lutheran to help older adults with chronic heart failure make a safe and successful transition to home, and to avoid hospital readmissions. The pilot yielded “A Perfect Homecoming,” a program that came about in 2015 through... Read More
San Francisco’s Institute on Aging (IOA) began in 1985 as a nonprofit providing multiple services to older adults, and is best known, locally, for its Friendship Line, a volunteer-staffed suicide prevention hotline serving older adults. Read More
The tax legislation passed today by a narrow partisan majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, the so-called “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” is the first step in passing tax reform legislation that ASA Chair Bob Blancato says “will only make some Americans great again.... Read More
But when the person is ready to go home, she will find that Medicare Part A won’t cover the stay because she was never formally admitted to the hospital. All services received will be billed separately under Part B, as if they had been delivered in a doctor’s office. Read More
Most people, especially baby boomers, who are at risk of having hepatitis C, don’t know it and don’t get tested for it. Most people who have HCV don’t know it because it usually doesn’t have noticeable symptoms for years. Many people don’t want to know about... Read More
Mistreatment can play out as physical, sexual, emotional or psychological abuse, as well as financial abuse and neglect. Often, older adults are the victims of more than one form of mistreatment, and many cases are not clear-cut, either in determining whether abuse has occurred or in deciding what... Read More
“The real pain may occur in cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and other safety net programs which will become necessary if economic growth does not occur.” Read More