The Dose

How Has COVID-19 Changed Health Care for Older Americans?


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The coronavirus pandemic is impacting everyone, but the older you are, the more severe the health consequences. The recommendation is stay home, away from other people.

What does that mean for an older person managing a chronic health condition (like diabetes) and needs to fill an insulin prescription?

What about someone who may be used to seeing their grandchildren every weekend, and is not able to because they could be risking their health?

On this episode of The Dose, the Commonwealth Fund's Gretchen Jacobson, vice president of the Medicare program, lays out just how tough COVID-19 has made life for older Americans.

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