Health Equity | Improving Care for Older Adults
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$1.5 Million Grant Expands Penn’s Undergrad Minority Health Research Pipeline
NIA Funding Launches PARC and LDI’s New GEAR UP Program
Improving Care for Older Adults
Improving the health, well-being, independence, and care of older adults.
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Improving Care for Older Adults
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NASEM Report Calls for Sweeping Reorganization of Nursing Home Industry
Two LDI Senior Fellows Weigh in on Decades of Industry Shortcomings
Improving Care for Older Adults
Blog Post
Leveraging Comprehensive, Community-Based Care Programs To Improve Care for Black and Latino Older Adults
The Program of All-Inclusive Care For the Elderly (PACE) Model Provides More Equitable Health Care While Helping Keep People in Their Communities
Our Experts
Meet LDI Fellows whose expertise relates to improving care for older adults.
Megan McSherry, MD, MS
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Perelman School of Medicine
Barbara Riegel, PhD, RN
- Professor, Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Penn Nursing
Susan Renz, PhD, RN
- Professor, Family and Community Health, Penn Nursing
Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD
- Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute
- Robert D. Eilers Memorial – William Maul Measey Professorship in Health Care Management and Economics, Wharton School
Elise Parrish
- PhD Student, Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences
Olivia Mitchell, PhD
- International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor, Wharton School
- Professor, Business Economics and Public Policy, Wharton School
Dominic A. Sisti, PhD, MBE
- Associate Professor, Medical Ethics & Health Policy and Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine
Seyoun Kim MHS
- PhD Student, Health Care Management and Economics, Wharton School
Improving Care for Older Adults Working Group
This working group brings people together to address questions relating to access, quality, and financing of care particularly relevant to an aging society and to disseminate related research. Care includes acute care, post-acute care, home care, caregiving, long-term services and supports, nursing homes, assisted living and other residential care options, hospice, and care received at the end of life.
Research Updates
Enrollment Grows in Integrated Managed Care Plans for Dual-Eligible Nursing Home Residents
Enrollment Remains Modest for Those on Medicare and Medicaid, but Specialized I-SNPs Drive Growth
Caring for the Family Caregivers Made Ill by Their Work
Randomized Controlled Trial Tests an Online Health Coaching Intervention
Why People With Dementia Prefer Aging in Place, Despite All The Missing Supports
Many Patients And Care Partners Don’t Plan For Future Needs Until Forced To Do So, LDI Fellows Find
How Do Ownership Changes Affect Nursing Home Quality?
After Acquisition, Staffing Declines Lead to a Small Negative Impact on Overall Quality
Older Americans in Subsidized Housing Suffer More Frailty and Dementia and Are Sent to Nursing Homes More Often Than Peers
Home-Based Programs Hold Promise to Improve Their Health
Sean Hennessy Wins Clinical Pharmacology Society Award
Honored for Outstanding Contributions to the Field
Photo Report from the Population Aging Research Center 2024 Retreat
Defining the Health and Health Care Problems and Prospects of Aging Americans
The Population Health Calamity Evidenced in U.S. Life Expectancy Statistics
And What it Portends for Aging Adult Health in the Coming Decades
Fixing Medicare’s Problem of Inadequately Coordinated Care
Penn LDI’s Amol Navathe Testifies Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance