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Medicare Spends More on Socially Isolated Older Adults

by Lynda Flowers, Ari Houser, Claire Noel-Miller, AARP Public Policy Institue, Jonathan Shaw, Jay Bhattacharya, Lena Schoemaker, Stanford University, Monica Farid, Harvard University, November 13, 2017

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Studies have shown that socially isolated older adults are at greater risk for poor health and death than their well-connected counterparts. Now a new study—the first to examine whether social isolation also affects health care spending among older adults—finds that a lack of social contacts among older adults is associated with an estimated $6.7 billion in additional Medicare spending annually. The study’s findings raise issues for Medicare and public health officials.

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