Look Homeward Medicine: focus on home-based care

The Henderson State-of-the-Art Lecture at the American Geriatrics Society was given by Bruce Leff, a Professor of Medicine and Director, Center for Transformative Geriatric Research, at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

By admin On 12 Jun 2018 Last updated 6 Oct 2022

First published May 2018, updated July 2022 Peter Sayer reports from the 2018 American Geriatrics Society annual scientific meeting, Orlando, Florida. Dr Leff’s presentation was entitled: €œLook Homeward, Medicine.€ It focused on the growing population of home-bound older adults, describing the spectrum of home-based medical care services and innovative models changing both where and how we age. The presentation discussed the role of quality registries in measuring and rewarding value-based care. Leff said that if hospital at home was a pill, it would be a blockbuster drug with numbers needed to treat to prevent mortality being 50. He also

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