{"id":2197,"date":"2016-03-08T11:34:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2016-03-08T11:35:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:35:09","slug":"report-details-senior-health-care-that-misses-the-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2197","title":{"rendered":"Report Details Senior Health Care That Misses The Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By – Michelle Andrews, Kaiser health News)<\/p>\n

Quality over quantity. As people get older, their health care goals may shift away from living as long as possible to maintaining a good quality of life. In key areas, however, the medical treatment older people receive\u00a0often doesn\u2019t reflect this change, according to a new study.<\/p>\n

The wide-ranging report<\/a> from the Dartmouth Atlas Project\u00a0uses Medicare claims data to examine\u00a0aging Americans\u2019 health care. Among other things, it identified five key areas where too many older people continue to receive treatments that don\u2019t meet established\u00a0guidelines or, often, their own goals and preferences.<\/p>\n

Two of the five have to do with preventive care that may not benefit seniors: screening for breast and prostate cancer. The other three address care at the end of life: late referral to hospice care, time in the intensive care unit in the last six months of life and placing feeding tubes in patients with dementia. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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