Healthcare Finance News September 25, 2023
These beneficiaries are also more likely to lack important resources available to manage their care, data shows.
Black and/or Latino Medicare beneficiaries are more likely than white beneficiaries to report difficulty managing activities of daily living (ADLs), according to a databook released by ATI Advisory with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Activities of daily living include dressing, bathing, walking across the room, transferring in and out of bed or chair, using the toilet and eating.
In addition to these difficulties, these beneficiaries are also more likely to lack important resources available to manage their care, the data showed.
WHAT’S THE IMPACT
The data was culled from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey from 2017 to 2020. Of those surveyed,...
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