The Changing Landscape of Post-acute and Rehabilitative Care

Virtually every society worldwide is seeing a growth in the number and proportion of older persons in its population. As growth occurs, medical care resources must be increasingly dedicated to prevention, detection, and management of chronic diseases such as congestive heart failure, and to problems of aging such as frailty and multimorbidity. As part of this process, after-hospital care has become an increasingly important component of health care systems and health care costs. At least 5 key forces have been at play:

Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - March 31, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Philip D. Sloane, Paul R. Katz, Sheryl Zimmerman Tags: Post-acute Care and Rehabilitation Source Type: research