The Aging of America: Implications for the Business of Health Care

The Aging of America: Implications for the Business of Health Care

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Price: $187
Pages: 432
ISBN: 1-933801-48-4
© 2008
Pub Code: BAGE

The Aging of America: Implications for the Business of Health Care is packed with data, trends, projections and other research findings on how Baby Boomers are about to reshape U.S. health care.

With contributions from organizations like:

The Brookings Institution
First Consulting Group
The Commonwealth Fund
RAND Corp.
The Urban Institute

And government agencies like:

The Administration on Aging
CDC
Congressional Budget Office
Congressional Research Service
Institute of Medicine
Census Bureau
Bureau of Labor Statistics

Separate chapters focus on how Boomers will impact hospitals and other providers, health plans, long-term and home care services, age-related diseases, and much more.
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Baby Boomers, who are now turning 60 at the rate of one every seven seconds, are about to redefine what it means to grow old in America. And the health care industry will be transformed in many significant ways as this enormous population bulge works its way through the system.

The number of people in the U.S. who are 65 and older is expected to double in the next 25 years, to nearly 20% of all Americans (more than 70 million). The age group 85 and older is now the fastest growing segment of the population.

And with the explosion in raw numbers, the face of aging is also changing dramatically, in terms of longer life expectancy, more chronic illness, higher disability rates, growing long-term care needs, changing retiree migration patterns and their impact on hospital services, and much more.

Already critical issues – such as the cost of managing chronic disease, and funding Medicaid, Medicare and Part D – will be magnified by the exploding number of Boomers who will live with chronic illness for longer periods of time and be eligible for these and other programs.

The aging of Boomers will trigger dynamic changes in the demand for:

Physicians and surgeons in many specialties
Inpatient and outpatient services in different procedural areas
Visits to physicians offices
Long-term, home and community-based services
Many medical procedures and tests
Innovative (and expensive) new pharmaceuticals
Occupations and settings that serve the elderly
New employees throughout the health care workforce to replace retiring Boomers

New challenges confront every sector of health care. Whether you’re employed by a hospital or health system, medical group or other provider, health plan or other payer, pharma or biotech company, long-term care or home health provider; or supplier of health care products or services ... it is now time to design and implement new strategies for the future.

Michael Carbine, Managing Editor at AIS, who is a veteran health business journalist with extensive experience working with Area Agencies on Aging and nonprofit organizations on a range of policy issues and program planning strategies related to aging.

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