{"id":25887,"date":"2026-04-27T07:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25887"},"modified":"2026-04-27T07:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:56:21","slug":"the-help-that-many-older-americans-need-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25887","title":{"rendered":"The Help That Many Older Americans Need Most"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Paula Span for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a recent Monday, Sandy Guzman, a community health worker in rural Oregon, drove to visit a patient in her 60s in a small city called The Dalles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The patient lived alone, and \u201creally struggles with social isolation,\u201d Guzman said. After a serious fall and subsequent surgery, the woman was using a wheelchair. She confided that she would like to attend services at a church down the road but had no way to get there and did not want to seem \u201ca bother.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe called the pastor to see if there was someone who could pick her up\u201d on Sundays, Guzman said. And there was.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/aging\/new-old-age-community-health-workers-promotores-home-visits-senior-support\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/aging\/new-old-age-community-health-workers-promotores-home-visits-senior-support\/\">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 Paula Span for KFF Health News) On a recent Monday, Sandy Guzman, a community health worker in rural Oregon,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17,21,5,587],"tags":[385,238,2063,94,410],"class_list":["post-25887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-finance","category-home-health-services","category-rural-health","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-home-services","tag-older-adults","tag-rural-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25887","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=25887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25888,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25887\/revisions\/25888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}