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AGE-FRIENDLY HEALTH SYSTEMS 4MS THEME ISSUE: By aligning care with older adults’ goals and making a simple set of key evidence-based practices reliable across settings, age-friendly care can reduce preventable harm and utilization, producing measurable results.

California’s workforce is being reshaped by the unprecedented aging of the state’s population. By 2040, roughly 23 percent of Californians will be 65 or older—up from 14 percent in 2020—while the working-age population will remain virtually unchanged.

AI won’t replace clinicians, but it can improve quality, increase access, and reshape the workforce, payments, and patient volumes. Today, AI can perform some 16 to 22 percent of US outpatient care.

Through the Health at Home Challenge, the Administration for Community Living (ACL) seeks to support independence, improve health, and reduce costs for dually eligible (or near-dually eligible) Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries by scaling advanced community care networks, led by community care hubs(CCHs) that integrate health care and community care.

In the face of a growing physician shortage, older adults are less likely to find the care they need. Today, the number of primary care physicians is growing, but not fast enough to keep pace with aging Americans who will soon account for 42% of the demand for primary care physicians. By 2034, the U.S. is projected to experience a shortage of 48,000 doctors.

When we talk about aging societies, we usually tell one of two stories. The first is a story of crisis: hospital beds, pension deficits and dependency ratios.

As America's population ages, more women are finding themselves navigating two full-time jobs, building careers while caring for aging parents. That balancing act is coming at a cost.

You have invested millions in AI. How much have you invested in the brains using it?

The freedom to choose your work hours has been a game changer for many white-collar workers. Now, it has quietly become an option for some blue-collar workers as well.

Many assume that if they can afford paid help in older age, they won’t need to rely on kin. They’re wrong.