{"id":23693,"date":"2024-12-02T08:46:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T13:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23693"},"modified":"2024-12-02T08:46:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T13:46:05","slug":"homebound-seniors-living-alone-often-slip-through-health-systems-cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23693","title":{"rendered":"Homebound Seniors Living Alone Often Slip Through Health System\u2019s Cracks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Judith Graham for KFF Health News) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carolyn Dickens, 76, was sitting at her dining room table, struggling to catch her breath as her physician looked on with concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s going on with your breathing?\u201d asked Peter Gliatto, director of Mount Sinai\u2019s Visiting Doctors Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d she answered, so softly it was hard to hear. \u201cGoing from here to the bathroom or the door, I get really winded. I don\u2019t know when it\u2019s going to be my last breath.\u201d  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/seniors-homebound-living-alone-health-risks-new-york\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/seniors-homebound-living-alone-health-risks-new-york\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for KFF Health News) Carolyn Dickens, 76, was sitting at her dining room table, struggling to catch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,59,12],"tags":[1551,94],"class_list":["post-23693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-caregiver","category-health-care-general","tag-aging-alone","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23694,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23693\/revisions\/23694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}