The Critical Shortfalls in Care of Frail Elders
After reading 'The Gift of Caring' you may react in horror
October 21, 2015
Joanne Lynn, M.D., is a geriatrician, hospice physician, health services researcher, quality improvement adviser and policy advocate who has focused upon shaping American health care so that every person can count on living comfortably and meaningfully through the period of serious illness and disability in the last years of life, at a sustainable cost to the community. She now leads the Center on Elder Care and Advanced Illness for Altarum Institute.