July 2019 News & Views: Partnership Forum Develops Recommendations to Improve PA Process; Nominations Are Now Open for Positions on AMCP Board of Directors; AMCP, HOPA Cohost Forum on Value of Cancer Care; JMCP is Featured in Alliance for Aging Research Event
A cost impact analysis of Medicare patients with Alzheimer's disease and dementia in their final years of life found that families and Medicaid bear the bear most of the cost burden. The authors of this JMCP article propose the need to better integrate Medicare and Medicaid to fund and improve patient outcomes.