Home Health Care News November 4, 2018
Robert Holly

Retail pharmacy chain CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) wants to provide care that is specifically tailored to older adults in its MinuteClinic locations. To do so, CVS Health is partnering with one of the top-ranked research universities in the United States and plans to draw on care principles developed through the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative.

CVS Health as made or been a part of several key moves with an eye toward America’s aging population. In October, the pharmacy giant secured anti-trust approval for its $69 billion acquisition of insurer Aetna (NYSE: AET), dependent on certain divesture requirements. This merger could support aging in place by making more health services easily accessible to people at locations close to their homes — namely,...

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