EP26: Elder Care: Past and Future with Joanne Lynn, MD, MA, MS and Carrie Graham, PhD, MGS

<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elder Care: Past and Future with Joanne Lynn, MD, MA, MS and Carrie Graham, PhD, MGS</span></em></p> <p><strong><em>“There needs to be a community anchor in managing eldercare.”</em></strong><strong>— Joanne Lynn, MD, MS, MA (03:21-03:25)</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Is it right, ethical, or moral that we have put 1.3 million Americans in solitary confinement for the past six months because of COVID-19? Would we tolerate this for college students? Young adults? Children? Not likely. But we have done this to 1.3 million nursing residents in this country. Why isn’t anyone asking these residents and their families what matters to them?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this week's episode, Dr. Melissa Batchelor welcomes Drs. Joanne Lynn and Carrie Graham as her guests for this week. We will discuss nursing homes and COVID as well as long-term care financing considerations from her fellowship.</span></p> <p><strong>Part One of ‘Elder Care: Past and Future with Joanne Lynn, MD, MA, MS’</strong></p> <p><a href= "https://www.healthandagingpolicy.org/fellows/joanne-lynn-md-ms-ma/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Joanne Lynn, MD, MS, MA, is a 2019-2020 Health and Aging Policy Fellow</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and is the Director of the Program to Improve Eldercare at Altarum Institute. One of the first hospice physicians in the US and an early developer of palliative care, Dr. Lynn is author of 300 peer-reviewed journal articles and 80 books and chapters on geriatrics, palliative care, and end of life care. She has been a tenured professor at the George Washington School of Medicine and Dartmouth Medical School and has worked in quality improvement for CMS, IHI, and the Washington, DC, Department of Health. She has led the team that has developed the MediCaring Communities reform model for eldercare and is working to generate communities capable of improving the performance of their eldercare arrangements. Other current projects inc