Among the challenges of being diagnosed with dementia and caring for someone diagnosed with dementia is navigating the complicated health, legal, and social systems designed to help and protect people ...

Despite a pressing need to improve outcomes and address inequities in nursing homes, there is limited evidence about the specific factors required to successfully implement real-world interventions in ...

Oncology practices often serve as the “medical home” for patients but may not have systems to support all aspects of patient-centered care. We piloted a new set of oncology medical home standards that ...

The authors drafted a “Shared Values of Collaborative Care” document with fundamental principles to make better group decisions in implementing collaborative care. We established core principles of ...

Nearly half of Americans live in an area without adequate mental health services. More than 85% of these so-called Mental ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new primary care model—the Making Care Primary (MCP) Model—geared towards smaller, independent primary care practices and organizations ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Whole person health is a person-centered, integrated approach to health care that focuses on health creation and well-being by incorporating patients’ goals into their health care. The current ...