Policy Innovations Supporting a Home-Based Care Ecosystem
Background
Over the past two decades, there has been a substantial shift to move care to home and community settings for people with complex health and social needs, particularly older adults and those with functional limitations. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated this shift, as providers rapidly pivoted to delivering care outside of traditional clinical and institutional settings. However, the home setting remains unevenly used and underutilized. As we exit the acute phase of the COVID-19 public health emergency, there is significant opportunity to address the need for Age-Friendly Health Systems by shaping the policy and provider landscape to support home-based primary care.
Project Overview
This project serves to amplify evidence-based policy recommendations to health leaders and thereby strengthen policy efforts to scale home-based primary care. In particular, we plan to translate policy considerations to providers and provide practical guidance to policymakers to make payment and delivery models amendable to home-based primary care. This project builds upon previous home-based care work to address the ongoing need for home-based primary care to improve the health of older adults with complex needs.
For this project, the Center is collaborating with the National Home-Based Primary Care Learning Network, the Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI), and the American Academy of Home Care Medicine (AAHCM) to advance home-based primary care and age-friendly health systems as part of a broader grant, Moving and Scaling Home-Based Primary Care, Phase III: Quality, Training, Advocacy and Policy. The project is supported by The John A. Hartford Foundation, a private, nonpartisan, national philanthropy dedicated to improving the care of older adults. The leader in the field of aging and health, The John A. Hartford Foundation has three priority areas: creating age-friendly health systems, supporting family caregivers, and improving serious illness and end-of-life care. Learn more at www.JohnAHartford.org.
Project Co-Grantee Principle Investigators
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Bruce Leff, MD |
Christine Ritchie, MD, MSPH Geriatrician and Palliative Care Specialist Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Mongan Institute Center for Aging and Serious Illness |
| Thomas Cornwell, MD Executive Chairman Home Centered Care Institute |
Melissa Singleton Chief Program Officer Home Centered Care Institute |
| Kristofer Smith, MD American Academy of Home Care Medicine |
Bruce Kinosian, MD American Academy of Home Care Medicine |
| Meghan Cohen, MPA, CAE American Academy of Home Care Medicine |
Cari Price, MS, CAE American Academy of Home Care Medicine |
| Frank McStay, MPA Research Director Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy |
Publications and Events
Research Team
Montgomery Smith, MPH
Policy Research Associate
Frank McStay, MPA
Research Director, Medicare Accountable Care Transformation
Inga Morken
Policy Analyst, Assistant
Rebecca Whitaker, PhD, MSPH
Research Director, North Carolina Health Care Transformation
Core Faculty Member
Senior Team Member