Medicare Part D and Its Effect on the Use of Prescription Drugs and Use of Other Health Care Services of the Elderly

2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kaestner ◽  
Nasreen Khan
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Prescription Drugs ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Medicare Part D ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Medicare Part ◽  
Part D ◽  
Care Services

Medicare Part D is Associated With Reducing the Financial Burden of Health Care Services in Medicare Beneficiaries With Diagnosed Diabetes

Medical Care ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (10) ◽  
pp. 888-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Li ◽  
Edward W. Gregg ◽  
Lawrence E. Barker ◽  
Ping Zhang ◽  
Fang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Medicare Part D ◽  
Medicare Part ◽  
Medicare Beneficiaries ◽  
Part D ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Diagnosed Diabetes

Time to Fill the Doughnuts — Health Care Reform and Medicare Part D

2011 ◽  
Vol 364 (7) ◽  
pp. 598-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Shrank ◽  
Niteesh K. Choudhry
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Reform ◽  
Medicare Part D ◽  
Medicare Part ◽  
Part D

Reaction of New Soviet Immigrants to Primary Health Care Services in Israel

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa I. Remennick ◽  
Naomi Ottenstein-Eisen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Israeli Population ◽  
Primary Health Care Services ◽  
Diverse Cultures

The post-1989 immigration wave from the former U.S.S.R. has increased the Israeli population by over 12 percent, seriously affecting the host health care system. This study draws on semi-structured interviews with the immigrants visiting outpatient clinics in the Tel-Aviv area in order to explore organizational and cultural aspects of their encounter with the Israeli medical services. While instrumental aspects of care were seen as an improvement over the Soviet standards, communication between providers and clients was seriously flawed, reflecting both a language barrier and diverse cultures of illness and cure. Many interviewees complained of the impersonal, “technical” attitude of Israeli physicians toward patients and the lack of holism in care, which they allegedly enjoyed before emigration. Some immigrant patients feel deprived of the paternalism of the Soviet medical system, complaining that Israeli providers “forego responsibility” for patients' health. A consumerist approach to medical services is also a novelty, and immigrants have to learn to be informed and assertive clients. Most problems are experienced by the elderly patients; overall, women seem to adjust to the new system better than men.

scholarly journals Primary health care services utilization and satisfaction among the elderly in Asir region, Saudi Arabia

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-371
Author(s):  
A. A. Mahfouz ◽  
A. I. Al Sharif ◽  
M. N. El Gamal ◽  
A. H. Kisha
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Primary Health Care Services ◽  
Long Time

Use of primary health care [PHC] services and satisfaction among elderly people [60 + years] in Asir was studied in 26 PHC centers. They visited PHC centers significantly less often than younger adults but they were referred significantly more often to secondary and tertiary care and for more laboratory tests. A r and om sample of 253 elderly people attending the centers was interviewed about accessibility, continuity, humaneness, informativeness and thoroughness of care. Overall, 79.0% were satisfied with the services provided. The leading 3 items of dissatisfaction were:not enough audiovisual means for health education [65.1%], long time spent in the centre [46.4%], and not enough specialty clinics [42.5%]

The Impact Of Medicare Part D On Prescription Drug Use By The Elderly

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1735-1744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank R. Lichtenberg ◽  
Shawn X. Sun
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Prescription Drug ◽  
Medicare Part D ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Medicare Part ◽  
Part D ◽  
Prescription Drug Use ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals ME4 THE IMPACT OF MEDICARE PART D ON HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION AND HEALTH OF THE MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. A7
Author(s):  
FX Liu ◽  
GC Alexander ◽  
SY Crawford ◽  
AS Pickard ◽  
DR Hedeker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Utilization ◽  
Medicare Part D ◽  
Medicare Part ◽  
Care Utilization ◽  
Medicare Beneficiaries ◽  
Part D ◽  
The Impact

Looking for Better Health in All the Wrong Places: The Road to “Equality” Hits a Dead End

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Miller
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Road ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Dead End ◽  
Path Dependent

I was initially assigned the working title, “Pursuing Equality in Health Care for the Elderly Is Futile.” I prefer to think of that particular dead end of health policy as one of listening to the wrong music for too long. Hence, this article reprises and revises the title song of the early 1980s movie, Urban Cowboy, but with Johnny Lee’s original lyrics adapted as “Looking for better health [rather than either ‘love’ or ‘love of equality’] in all the wrong places.” The better goal is to achieve more progress in improving health for more people, including (but not limited to) the elderly. It need not be as futile as the pursuit of the elusive abstraction of “equality” for all — but only if we first move away from a path-dependent approach of recent times that remains too narrowly focused on statistical disparities in health care services received by particular groups.

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