How Medicaid Cuts Could Force Millions Into Nursing Homes
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Improving Care for Older Adults
Improving the health, well-being, independence, and care of older adults.
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Research Updates
Who Cares? Study Reveals 50 Years of U.S. Caregiving Trends
Men are Stepping Up at Home, but Caregiving Still Falls On Women and People of Color LDI Fellow Says
Better Care at Home: Family Plus Formal Help Makes a Difference
Economist Norma Coe’s Caregiving For Relatives Informed Her Research
Chart of the Day: Home Health Care Use Rose Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Dementia Until the Pandemic
The Decline Since 2020 May Signal Gaps in Service and Access
Photo Report from the Population Aging Research Center 2025 Retreat
Penn Event Explores the Limits of Chronological Aging and Related Issues
How Medicare Advantage Changed Home Health Care Use
LDI Executive Director Discusses New Findings on Medicare Beneficiaries’ Use of Home Health
Gene Hackman’s Death Shows Why Caregivers Need More Care
The Tragic Deaths of the Actor With Dementia and His Wife Signal a System That Often Fails to Support Caregivers
Nursing Home Staffing Mandate and Resident Outcomes
Briefing: Presented to Staff of U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans Linked to Use of Inferior Hospice Care
People Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid are More Likely to Get Care From Poorer Quality Hospices
Our Experts
Meet LDI Fellows whose expertise relates to improving care for older adults.
Oonjee Oh, MSN, RN
- PhD Student , Penn Nursing
Elaine Sang, MSN, RN
- PhD Student, NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health , Penn Nursing
Mary Naylor, PhD, RN
- Marian S. Ware Professor, Gerontology , Penn Nursing
- Director, NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health , Penn Nursing
Michael Stawnychy, PhD, CRNP
- Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Health Sciences , Penn Nursing
Yuvaram Reddy, MBBS, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Renal-Electrolyte & Hypertension , Perelman School of Medicine
Bob Burke, MD, MS
- Associate Professor, Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
George Demiris, PhD, FACMI
- Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, Biobehavioral Health Sciences , Penn Nursing
- Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, Epidemiology and Informatics , Perelman School of Medicine
Norma Coe, PhD
- Director of Research , Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
- Co-Director of the Health Economics Data Analyst Pool (HEDAP) , Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
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.