

Aging & Medicare
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Aging & Medicare
A milestone in healthy aging
IHPI is celebrating five years of the National Poll on Healthy Aging! Since 2017, this nationally representative survey of adults aged 50–80 has produced 47 reports and dozens of peer-reviewed publications that have generated substantial coverage across mainstream media, social media, and academic channels. In the last year, the poll has covered topics such as such as aging in place, mobile health app use, sexual health, and saving for health care expenses. The NPHA has also developed innovative strategies (including
This rapid response has been essential in documenting the experiences and perspectives of older adults during the pandemic, including their willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccines and boosters, impact of living environments on health, use of electronic health portals and telehealth, and feelings of loneliness and isolation. NPHA has also made six waves of survey data publicly available to researchers across U-M and the country.
Highlights
IHPI member Sue Anne Bell, Ph.D., FNP-BC, FAAN, of the U-M School of Nursing, testified before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging about considerations for older adults in disaster preparedness and response in November 2021. (Her testimony begins at 32:27 in the video.)
View the May 2022 webinar "Optimizing Health and Well-Being as We Age," organized and presented by IHPI and AARP.
More than 100 IHPI members are now part of IHPI’s Aging Research Network, launched in fall 2021 to connect a wide range of IHPI members involved in research on Medicare, long-term care, health care utilization, and health conditions that particularly affect older adults.

Featured News

Aging well in a pandemic: Older adults share what it takes
Most people over 50 feel their health is the same or better than before 2020, but some populations may need more support to achieve healthy aging, poll shows

Saving for future health care expenses
Tax-free health savings accounts are used less by those who may need them most, poll finds

Most older adults ready to roll up sleeves this fall for updated COVID-19 boosters
Most people over 50 feel their health is the same or better than before 2020, but some populations may need more support to achieve healthy aging, poll shows