Researchers: Home-Based Care For Aging Patients Would Fill Telehealth Gaps

Care for elderly patients could best be served by shifting to a home-based primary care model, two physicians and geriatric care researchers argue. They say this model would fill some health care access gaps posed by telehealth. Christine Ritchie of Harvard University and Bruce Leff of Johns Hopkins University wrote in an article titled “Home-Based Care Reimagined: A Full-Fledged Health Care Delivery Ecosystem Without Walls,” published in Health Affairs , that the COVID-19 pandemic has shown health care cannot be...