Penn Today highlights a recent research article published in Medical Care co-authored by Research Associates Rachel M. Werner and Norma B. Coe which examines racial and ethnic disparities in Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions hospitalizations among Medicare Advantage enrollees overall and by star rating.
Citations:
"Racial Differences in Access to Medicare Plans Have Health Consequences," Penn Today, January 4, 2023.
Park S, Werner RM, Coe NB. "Association of Medicare Advantage Star Ratings With Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions" Medical Care 60(12):p 872-879, December 2022.
Norma B. Coe's (PSC/PARC Research Associate) most recent paper, published in Health Services Research, was featured in a Penn LDI blog post. The paper discusses how Medicare affects end-of-life care.
Norma B. Coe, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Rachel M. Werner (PSC/PARC Research Associates) were quoted in a recent LDI Blog post about the new Get Experience in Aging Research Undergraduate Program (GEAR UP). The program will support underrepresented undergraduate students who are interested in health and aging.
We are excited to share that the National Institute on Aging has funded a brand-new undergraduate research training program, GEAR UP. This joint venture between the Population Aging Research Center (PARC) and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (Penn LDI) will build on the successful and long-standing Summer Undergraduate Minority Research (SUMR) Program, by providing exciting mentored research experiences to undergraduates for two consecutive summers, supplemented with programming throughout the academic year. The long-term goal of the program is to enhance the diversity of the research workforce in the demography and economics of aging, health, and healthcare. Learn more on the GEAR-UP Program page.
Rachel M. Werner and Norma B. Coe's (PSC/PARC Research Associates) latest Health Services Paper paper was featured in a Penn LDI Blog post. The paper is entitled "Racial and ethnic disparities in access to and enrollment in high-quality Medicare Advantage plans."
Norma B. Coe (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Rachel Werner (PARC Research Associate) authored an LDI blog post entitled, "Family and Friends are the Invisible Workforce in Long-term Care," about their new research published in Health Affairs. These findings help to explain the stories of staffing shortages and burnout in nursing homes under COVID despite no apparent drop in staff hours, when visitor bans were one of the first policy responses to the outbreak. The bans essentially eliminated this invisible workforce, increasing the care demands on the staff, on top of the extra work of the COVID protocols and infections themselves.
New study published by Norma B. Coe (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Rachel M. Werner in JAMA Network Open titled "Trends in Receipt of Help at Home After Hospital Discharge Among Older Adults in the US" was cited in a Penn LDI Blog post on the importance of needing expert help at home for older adults after their discharge from the hospital.
Norma B. Coe (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was featured in Penn Today and a Penn LDI Blog, in Medical Care, that examines Medicare Advantage plan enrollees.
New research published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society by Norma B. Coe (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Scott D. Halpern (PARC Research Associate) titled "Evaluation and disposition of older adults presenting to the emergency department with abdominal pain" was cited in a Penn LDI Blog.
Rachel Werner (PARC Research Associate) and Norma Coe (PSC/PARC Research Associate) authored a new paper entitled, "Nursing Home Staffing Levels Did Not Change Significantly During COVID-19," published in Health Affairs. The study examines nurse staffing levels, workload, and self-reported stress levels during the pandemic. The study was featured in a recent installment of the LDI Health Policy$ense blog and cited in McKnights Long Term Care News.
Norma Coe (PARC Research Associate) and Rachel Werner (PSC/PARC Research Associate) co-authored an Op-ed published in Newsweek. Their piece recognizes and discusses the importance of including home care workers in Biden's infrastructure plan.
Adriana Perez (PARC Research Associate) was awarded her first R01, alongside team members Nancy Hodgson (PARC Research Associate), Norma Coe (PARC Co-Director), for a new research project entitled, A Physical Activity Intervention to Promote Cognitive Health, Cardiovascular Health and Sleep in Older Latinos (1R01AG070351-01, 2021-2024). The new study addresses increasing rates of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) among Latinos by testing a multilevel intervention that aims to improve cardiovascular health, sleep and cognitive function by promoting moderate-intensity physical activity. Read more in Penn Nursing news.
Norma B. Coe (PARC Co-Director) wrote an op-ed in The Hill discussing the need for comprehensive long-term care in the US, as an estimated 18.5 million Americans will be over the age of 85 in 2050. Coe examines the financial costs of planning for this demographic challenge and why care workers need to be supported.
Norma B. Coe (PARC) was featured in the LDI Health Policy$ense blog, "Costs and Outcomes for Patients with Dementia in Medicare Advantage Plans," which references a JAMA Network Open longitudinal cohort study of 47,100 Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD).
The Population Aging Research Center, Norma B. Coe, and Hans-Peter Kohler were featured in a Penn Today profile piece.
Congratulations to Norma B. Coe (PARC Co-Director) on being granted tenure at the University of Pennsylvania! Norma is an Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Director of the PEDAL Lab, and Co-Director of the Population Aging Research Center (PARC). Read more in the Medical Ethics and Health Policy announcement.
Allison K. Hoffman (PARC Research Associate), Rachel M. Werner (PARC Research Associate), and Norma B. Coe (PARC Research Associate) co-authored a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine about Long-Term Care Policy after COVID-19. Read more in Penn Today.
The Population Aging Research Center (PARC) received renewed funding from the National Institute on Aging (NIA)! Read the announcement from new Co-PI's Hans-Peter Kohler and Norma B. Coe.
On this episode of WHYY's Radio Times, Lisa Walke and Norma B. Coe (PARC Research Associate) discuss the financial and social tradeoffs individuals and families make to afford care, whether at home, in a nursing facility or assisted living community and the push to age in place and look at caregiver and geriatrician shortages.
Congratulations to Principal Investigators, Atul Gupta and David S. Mandell, alongside Co-Investigators, Alison M. Buttenheim, Norma Coe, and Harsha Thirumurthy, on receiving 2020 LDI pilot research grants. The various early stage health services research projects target challenges in health and health care delivery. Read more here
PSC/ PARC Associates Atul Gupta, Atheendar Venkatramani and Norma B.Coe publish new research in the Health Affairs Journal titled "Spending And Quality After Three Years Of Medicare’s Voluntary Bundled Payment For Joint Replacement Surgery" which was cited in a blog on the Penn LDI website.
PSC & PARC Associates and Affiliates, Norma B. Coe, Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Rachel M. Werner, and Nancy A. Hodgson, joined top University of Pennsylvania health policy experts and members of the Penn class of 1969 a couple weeks ago on a panel with the Leonard Davis Institute.
PARC associate Norma B. Coe's study on estimating dementia’s incremental costs to Medicare in the five years after diagnosis in older adults with and without dementia has been published in Penn LDI's Research Brief