Chronic Care: A Call To Action For Health Reform - AARP To Release Comprehensive Survey And Report At March 23 Solutions Forum

Main Category: Public Health
Article Date: 17 Mar 2009 - 4:00 PDT

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AARP's Public Policy Institute will release a new survey and report that expose the struggles chronically ill patients and their caregivers face throughout the health care system. The study will be released at a Solutions Forum in collaboration with the National Partnership for Women & Families that will convene two expert panels to discuss the report's findings and health reform options to address the needs of people with chronic conditions.

The report, "Chronic Care: A Call to Action for Health Reform," concludes that overcoming barriers to improving chronic care requires adopting a range of health reform initiatives, and it offers specific recommendations for policy designs. The report includes two comprehensive surveys of Americans with chronic conditions and caregivers who work with chronically ill loved ones.

What:
Chronic Care: A Call to Action for Health Reform An AARP Solutions Forum in collaboration with the National Partnership & Women and Families

When:
Monday, March 23, 2009
9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Breakfast will be served beginning at 8:30 a.m.

Where:
Hart Senate Office Building
Room 902
Take the north elevator bank to the ninth floor

Who:
Panel One: Findings from "Chronic Care: A Call to Action for Health Reform"
Chad Boult, Director, Center for Integrated Health Care, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Carol Levine, Director, Families and Health Care Project, United Hospital Fund
Mary D. Naylor, Director, Center for Transitions and Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Moderated by Susan Reinhard, Director, AARP Public Policy Institute

Panel Two: Assessment - Can Health Reform Fix Chronic Care?
Mark Bayer, Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director, Representative Ed Markey (D-MA)
Dan Elling, Health Subcommittee Staff Director, House Ways and Means Committee, Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI)
Mark Hayes, Health Policy Director and Chief Health Counsel, Senate Finance Committee, Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Ashley Ridlon, Legislative Assistant, Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)
Neera Tanden, Counselor for Health Reform to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Moderated by John Rother, AARP Executive Vice President, Policy and Strategy

Concluding Remarks
Debra Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families

AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization that helps people 50+ have independence, choice and control in ways that are beneficial and affordable to them and society as a whole. AARP does not endorse candidates for public office or make contributions to either political campaigns or candidates. We produce AARP The Magazine, the definitive voice for 50+ Americans and the world's largest-circulation magazine with over 34.5 million readers; AARP Bulletin, the go-to news source for AARP's 40 million members and Americans 50+; AARP Segunda Juventud, the only bilingual U.S. publication dedicated exclusively to the 50+ Hispanic community; and our website, AARP.org. AARP Foundation is an affiliated charity that provides security, protection, and empowerment to older persons in need with support from thousands of volunteers, donors, and sponsors. We have staffed offices in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Source
AARP