tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 22

Long-Term Care: Report: Action Needed To Avert Geriatric Care Crisis

Payment system discourages medical students from geriatric path.While the U.S. population is aging rapidly, medical schools are failing to train enough geriatricians and other professionals who specialize in treating older adults to meet future needs. As a result, there will be only one geriatrician for every 7,665 older adults by the year 2030 unless steps are taken to reverse the discipline's decline.That's the warning of a report released this month by the New York-based American Geriatrics Society. Titled "Caring for Older Americans: The Future of Geriatric Medicine," the study found that while the...

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