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

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