Navigating Aging: Lack of affordability tops older americans’ list of health care worries
07/09/24 at 03:00 AM
Navigating Aging: Lack of affordability tops older americans’ list of health care worries
KFF Health News - Northern Kentucky Tribune; by Judith Graham, KFF News; 7/5/24
What weighs most heavily on older adults’ minds when it comes to health care? The cost of services and therapies, and their ability to pay. ... A new wave of research highlights the reach of these anxieties. When the University of Michigan’s National Poll on Healthy Aging asked people 50 and older about 26 health-related issues, their top three areas of concern had to do with costs: of medical care in general, of long-term care, and of prescription drugs. More than half of 3,300 people surveyed in February and March reported being “very concerned” about these issues.