Quality Assurance: An interview with Erin Giovannetti and Michael Barr
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) was founded in 1990 to improve the quality of healthcare in the United States. The National Committee for Quality Assurance evaluates and accredits health plans in the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto …
Palliative Care Everywhere: An interview with Diane E. Meier
“With a growing population of older individuals, the need for palliative care has never been more pronounced. The Center to Advance Palliative Care successfully led the call to provide palliative care in hospital settings. Today, the Center is focused on making palliative …
Redefining Dementia: An interview with the Dementia Action Alliance
Dementia touches not only the elderly but also their families and everyone around them. There is much that is not understood about this condition. As a result, those who live with dementia and their caregivers often experience rejection and isolation. The Dementia …
Hospital at Home: An interview with Bruce Leff
When older people become acutely ill, the hospital is not always the best place for them to stay. Elders are prone to bacterial and virus infections that come from extended hospital stays. Complications after hospitalization such as functional decline, delirium, or acute …
Disrupting Emergency Medicine: An interview with DispatchHealth
Two of the main areas where health system spending is very high are hospital admissions and readmissions and emergency department visits and bounce backs. Readmissions occur when a patient is discharged from the hospital but returns to the hospital for the same …
Living with Dementia: An interview with Brian LeBlanc
Dementia affects not only those living with this health condition but their families, friends, and everyone around them. In this interview, Brian LeBlanc, a national public speaker and advocate for dementia awareness and education, who himself suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, discusses his …
Partners in Care: An interview with June Simmons
ACCESS Health Program Manager Jean Galiana interviewed the founder of Partners in Care, June Simmons, as part of a study on elder and long term care. Simmons described the focus of the Partners in Care program and the reasons for its success. …
Long Term Care Insurance in the United States
“Long term care insurance requires a long term financial commitment. Many people think that insurance companies take advantage of payers with regular increases in prices. In this interview, the president of Thau Incorporated, Claude Thau, explains how long term care insurance works …
CaringKind: The Art of Alzheimer’s Caregiving
Family caregivers founded the Alzheimer’s Society of New York and New Jersey in the late 1970s. At a time when Alzheimer’s was still only a footnote in medical textbooks, there was no source of support, information, or education about the disease. Families …
Redefining Aging for the Twenty First Century: An interview with Ruth Finkelstein
The Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at Columbia University is an interdisciplinary education and research organization dedicated to changing the way people think about aging. The Columbia Aging Center consists of two branches, the Aging Lab and the International Longevity Centre. …
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