August 2021 – Page 6 – medicarereport.org

Prevention is key—protect yourself with vaccines

(Source – www. medicare.gov/blog) More than 79% of people 65 and over are fully vaccinated for COVID-19—but are you defending

(By Julie Rovner for NPR) Sorry, Joe Namath. Despite what you keep saying in those TV ads, under Medicare, seniors are

(By Laura Fraade-Blanar, Ryan Best, and Vijeth Iyengar for STAT) The United States has experienced a particularly rapid period of

(By Jackie Drees for Becker’s Hospital Review) The black market for fake COVID-19 vaccine passports is growing as countries mandate them,

(Source -blogs.va.gov) Bill Van Aken’s smile and wave are staples in VA Sierra Nevada’s prosthetics department. The Army Veteran has

Around 6.2 million Americans aged 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s disease. With no effective interventions for disease prevention

(By Phil Galewitz and Rachel Bluth and Rae Ellen Bichell for Kaiser Health News) Andrea Mosterman, an associate professor of

(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) As covid-19 resurges across the country, driven by the highly infectious delta variant,

(By Mackenzie Bean for Becker’s Hospital Review) Delaware Gov. John Carney signed a bill into law Aug. 4 granting full practice

(By Markian Hawryluk for Kaiser Health News) The clock was about to strike midnight, and Scott Newman was desperately feeding