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As more payers shift seniors from in-patient facilities and back toward their homes, more patients need assistance, a new study shows. The burden on patients and families isn’t fully understood.
More older patients are going home after hospitalization and they are needing more help at home, a new study revealed.
In the past, when an older patient left the hospital, they’d likely go to a rehabilitation facility or perhaps a long-term care facility. Now, payers are increasingly directing patients to recover at home, and those patients are needing more assistance, University of Pennsylvania researchers found in a study published Nov. 30 on Jama Network Open.
Healthcare policy leaders need to watch this trend, the authors wrote. The burdens and challenges...
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