The Boomer Challenge

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Jefferson Health leaders share their generational strategies at AHA Leadership Summit

Our nation’s aging population calls for some radical changes in geriatric care. Here are five ways to start.

The baby boomers are in line to benefit from new technologies. Christopher Suhar, M.D., director of the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, describes a cardiac rehab technology that Scripps is testing, in a video report.

Through the adoption of health care tools and technology, the baby boom generation has demanded innovation from mHealth to better-designed, assisted living models.

The baby boom generation will deliver a blow to health care once its members start to retire in large numbers, but this provides an opportunity for new employment structures to take hold.

Baby boomers will need more health care as they age. That's a challenge for new care models.

Absorbing the baby boom generation into Medicare sounds daunting, but health reform offers reasons for hope

As baby boomers age, a huge spike in chronic illness poses a thorny problem to an evolving health care system

H&HN's January cover story launches our yearlong look at the impact 75 million boomers are having on health care. In a different piece, we interview a University of Michigan researcher who says EDs may hold the key to reducing readmissions.

A generation that has dominated American life for a half-century will have an enormous impact on health care as it ages