Modeling Health Care Spending Growth of Older Adults

How Does Obesity in Adults Affect Spending on Health Care?

Over the past two decades, the adult population in the United States has, on average, become much heavier. From 1987 to 2007, the fraction of adults who were overweight or obese increased from 44 percent to 63 percent; almost two-thirds of the adult population now falls into one of those categories. The share of obese adults rose particularly rapidly, more than doubling from 13 percent to 28 pe...

Changing Health Care for Vulnerable Older Adults

Four papers discuss the relative influence of scientific, societal, and/or public policy upon the care of vulnerable older adults. Each paper addresses a program of research, an aspect of which influences the quality of health provided. Although the focus of each program of research is different, a common theme is improvement in health care provided for older adults. A second theme is the suppo...

Motivational Interviewing and Health Promotion of Older Adults

This article has no abstract.

The global slowdown in health care spending growth.

Growth In Health Care Spending In 1987 Treated Disease

Analysis of data from the National Medical Expenditure Survey and the Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys from 1987–2009 reinforces previous observations that increased prevalence of treated disease has become the main driver of increased spending on health care in the United States. Higher treated disease prevalence and higher spending per treated case were associated with 50.8 percent and 39.0 ...