Fierce Healthcare April 8, 2022
The pandemic has put social determinants of health and inequities into the spotlight. But a new study from Humana aims to highlight how common these challenges were among seniors before COVID-19 hit.
The study, published this week in Health Affairs and conducted between October 2019 and February 2020, screened more than 100,000 Medicare Advantage members and found that just under half (49.3%) were positive for at least one social health challenges. Of those, the most common was financial strain, reported by 33.1% of members.
Other social needs identified include food insecurity (18.5%) and poor housing quality (17.7%).
“It wasn’t that the pandemic created these social needs,” Stephanie Franklin, associate director of population...
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