Doctors & Hospitals
By Year
- 19 Million Working-Age Americans Have a Disability that Limits or Prevents Work. Most Are Poor or Low-Income.
- 2009 Wyoming Health Information Survey of Residents Age 50 and Older
- 20th Anniversary of Patient Self-Determination Act
- 5 Things Your Doctor Dislikes About You
- A Balancing Act: State Long-Term Care Reform
- A Better Way to Die
- A Better Way to Manage Pain
- A Doctor for All Seasons and Terrains
- A Physical Routine
- A State-by-State Guide to Nurse Practitioners
- AARP RI Joins Nationwide Effort to Champion Nursing in America
- AARP Survey Finds the Doctor is 'Out' for Many Idahoans
- AARP, American Medical Association, and American Nurses Association Survey
- Access to Physicians Survey
- Access to Primary Care Doctors Lowers Death Rates for Seniors
- Access to Your Doctor’s Notes
- Adult Care Home Residents Win Added Protection
- Adult Day Services
- Advocates Seek More Funding for Long Term In-Home Care
- After Hospital Discharge, Trauma Patients Face Increased Death Risk
- Aging and Disability Resource Center Opens in Wyoming
- Ambulatory Surgery Centers Now More Closely Monitored
- An Alternative to a Nursing Home
- An ER Just for Older Patients
- An Overview of Managed Care Liability: Implications for Patient Rights and Federal and State Reform
- Are We Being Overexposed?
- Arkansas Ranks 37th Overall in Performance on Long-Term Services and Supports
- Ask Sid: Holding on to Medical Records
- Ask the Experts: Hospital Charity Care
- Ask the Tough Questions
- Asking Questions to Get the Care You Need
- Assuring the Quality of Home Care: The Challenge of Involving the Consumer
- Avoid Unnecessary Procedures and Medical Errors
- Avoid the Hospital in July
- Bay State Ranks Low on Long Term Services
- Becoming Disabled After Age 65: The Expected Lifetime Costs of Independent Living
- Becoming a Partner in Your Own Care
- Before The Scalpel
- Better Doctors Visits
- Beyond 50.03: A Report to the Nation on Independent Living and Disability
- Beyond 50.03: A Report to the Nation on Independent Living and Disability: Executive Summary
- Bringing it Home: AARP Iowa Member Opinion on Direct Care Worker Quality and Long-Term Care Access
- Building Adult Foster Care: What States Can Do
- CDC: Doctors Overtesting for Cervical cancer Virus
- Can Hospital Gowns Be Fabulous?
- Can I Find Health Information and Data About My Hometown?
- Caring Careers
- Changes in Home Care Use by Older People with Disabilities: 1982-1994
- Check Out of the Hospital—and Stay Out
- Comparative Effectiveness: What's at Stake for Consumers?
- Consumer-Directed Home Care in the Netherlands, England, and Germany
- Consumer-Directed Personal Care Services for Older People in the U.S.
- Consumer-Directed Services for Older People
- Coordinating Your Care Through a Medical Home
- Create a Personal Medical History
- Creating Better Doctors
- Crowdsource A Great Doctor
- Dennis Quaid Wants Zero Harm
- Despite Promises, Home Care Lags
- Discovery: Going to the Doctor? Take an Advocate Along
- Doctor Profits From Excessive Prescriptions to Medicaid Patients
- Doctors Seek to Quash Patient Ratings
- Doctors Take Sharing to a New Level
- Drug-Resistant Bacterium Hits Southern California Health Care Facilities
- E-mail Your Doctor—It’s Good for Your Health
- Emergency Rooms That Cater to Seniors Make Good Sense
- Emergency Rooms for Seniors
- Excerpt From 'Your Medical Mind'
- FYI: Who Uses Medicare's Home Health Benefit?
- Facility Fees On Your Medical Bills
- Fending Off Hospital Superbugs
- Finding Your Way: Do Your Homework Before You Choose a Hospital
- Finding Your Way: Does Your Doctor Need a Nap?
- Finding Your Way: How to Complain and Get Heard
- Finding Your Way: You Will Get the Correct Care for Your Illness Only About 60 Percent of the Time
- Follow the Money: Payment Reform as the Key to Health Reform
- Following the Doctor's Orders on Your Medicine Can Save You Thousands, Prevent Hospital Stays
- For Your Health: Care Enough to Compare
- Funding Health and Long-Term Care: A Survey on Increasing Kentucky's Cigarette Tax
- Geriatric Care Managers: A Profile of an Emerging Profession
- Health 2.0
- Health and Safety Issues in an Aging Workforce
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!How Much Does a Hospital Owe for Causing a Patient’s Death?
- Hispanics Urged to Talk With Their Doctor
- Home Care Quality: Emerging State Strategies to Deliver Person-Centered Services
- Home and Community-Based Long-Term Services and Supports for Older People
- Hospital Advisory Councils Improve Patients’ Care
- Hospital Performance Report Released by DHSS
- Hospital-Bound? How to Protect Yourself
- Hospitals Help Their Patients—at Home
- Hospitals May Be the Worst Place to Stay When You're Sick
- House Calls Make a Comeback in Montana
- House Calls Make a Comeback—Online
- How Can I Find a Good Hospital?
- How Can I Remember Everything the Doctor Tells Me?
- How Does the Older Person Cross the Road in New York? Very Carefully
- How Much Do Health Literacy and Patient Activation Contribute to Older Adults' Ability to Manage Their Health?
- How to Avoid Infections in Hospitals, Clinics—Even Your Doctor’s Office
- How to Avoid the Roundtrip Visit to the Hospital
- How to Get Patients to Ask — and Doctors to Listen
- How to Get Work as a Mystery Shopper
- How to Talk to — and Understand — Your Doctor
- Improving Advanced Illness Care: The Evolution of State POLST Programs
- In 'Your Medical Mind,' Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband Make It Personal
- In Brief: Building Adult Foster Care: What States Can Do
- In Brief: Exploring the Role of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Government Regulations
- In Brief: Paying for Quality Care: State and Local Strategies for Improving Wages and Benefits for Personal Care Assistants
- In Brief: Pulling Together: Administrative and Budget Consolidation of State Long-Term Care Services
- In Brief: State and Local Strategies for Ensuring Backup Personal Care Services
- In Brief: The Nature and Extent of Medical Injury in Older Patients
- In-Brief: Consumer-Directed Home Care in the Netherlands, England, and Germany
- In-Brief: Home Care Quality: Emerging State Strategies to Deliver Person-Centered Services
- In-Brief: State-Funded Home and Community-Based Service Programs for Older People
- Iowa Earns Mostly High Marks in New Report
- Iranian Cure for the Delta Blues
- Iranian Cure for the Delta’s Blues
- Is Your Doctor Ordering Needless Tests?
- Life-Sustaining Document Gains Acceptance in Medical Community
- Loan Forgiveness Program for Geriatric Physicians
- Long-Term Care Options
- Lopsided Long-Term Care Spending
- Magnetic Pulse Therapy Helps Major Depression
- Maine Seniors Fear They Will Lose Their Doctors
- Making Medical Transitions Easier
- Making the Move to Electronic Health Records
- Managing Your Medical Life
- Many Hospitals Overuse Double CT Scans, Data Show
- Medical Alert Devices to the Rescue
- Medical Errors Occur 10 Times More Than Previously Thought
- Medical Mistakes
- Medical Tourism
- Medical Travel in the U.S.
- Medicine in a Small, Small Town
- Midlife and Older Americans with Disabilities: Who Gets Help?
- Most Common Causes of Hospital Admissions for Older Adults
- Murder in the Nursing Home
- My Generation: Dr. Checklist
- Nebraskans Connect with Services Using 211 Helpline
- New Directions for State Long-Term Care Systems
- New Emphasis on Customer Service in Medicine
- New Guidelines for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease
- New Law Means a Wider Choice of Long-Term Housing Options
- New Law Requires Reporting of Hospital-Acquired Infections
- New Study Finds Fewer Doctors Visit Patients in the Hospital
- No-Fault Medical Malpractice Compensation: Policy Considerations for Design of a Demonstration Project
- Now Hear This: People, Trends and Ideas
- Nurse Practitioners Call for Greater Independence
- Nurse Practitioners Want Autonomy
- Nurses: The Key to Accessible, High-Quality Health Care
- Nursing Home Funding Slashed
- Nursing Shortage
- Nursing Shortage Will Grow as Population Ages
- Opinion: Add Long-Term Care to the Health Reform Debate
- Organ Donation: The Gift of Life
- Outrage: Waaay too many ER visits
- Overused, Over-treated and Out of Control
- Patient Checklist for Your Hospital Stay
- Patient Responsibility in Health Care: An AARP Bulletin Survey
- Patient-Directed Care
- Patients Delay Doctor Visits, Skimp on Meds
- Paying for Quality Care: State and Local Strategies for Improving Wages and Benefits for Personal Care Assistants
- Perceptions Regarding the Quality of Patient Care in South Carolina: An AARP Member Survey
- Personal Health Records: An Overview of What Is Available to the Public
- Plan for End-of-Life Care
- Preventable Medical Mistakes
- Primary Health Care in Crisis
- Pulling Together: Administrative and Budget Consolidation of State Long-Term Care Services
- Quality Assurance for Long-Term Care: The Experiences of England, Australia, Germany and Japan
- Rate Your Doctor
- Read This Before You Take the Test
- Reducing Medical Errors, Hospital Infections
- Removing Barriers to Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Care: Hospital Privileges
- Rhode Island Free Clinic – Luck of the Draw
- Safety Culture Creates Better Care for Patients
- Save Money on Your Medical Care — Take a Trip
- Scholarship Closer to Endowment Status
- Selecting the Right Hospital for You
- Short-Term Medicare ‘Doc Fix’ Approved
- State Faces a Nursing Home Crisis
- State Slipping as Leader in Home- and Community-Based Care
- State-Funded Home and Community-Based Service Programs for Older People
- Strategies to Improve Health Care Quality in Virginia: Survey of Residents Age 50+
- Study Says Stroke Victims Taking Longer to Get to Hospital
- Take Charge of Your Health
- Take a Loved One to the Doctor
- Talking Helps Families With End-of-Life Decisions
- Tennesseans Make New Choices for Care
- The Decision Tree
- The Digital Doctor Will See You Now
- The Doctor Can't See You Now – But the Nurse Can
- The Doctor Patient Meet-Up
- The GINA Law: Consumer Protection in a New Era of Genetic Testing
- The Nature and Extent of Medical Injury in Older Patients
- The New Face of Health Care
- The Pros and Cons of Rating Doctors
- The Verdict: How Much Does a Hospital Owe for Causing a Patient’s Death?
- Tools That Help With Health Care and Costs
- Top Tips for Avoiding a Return Trip to the Hospital
- Tracking Medical Errors Hospital by Hospital in New Jersey
- Tracking Your Health Information the Easy Way
- Traveling Abroad for Medical Care
- Treat Me, Not My Age
- Wanted: More Instructors and More Nurses
- Washington’s Best-in-the-Nation Long-Term Care System is at Risk
- Wealth Care
- What You Can Do to Avoid Medication Errors
- What You Should Know About Same-Day Surgery
- What to Do Before You Leave the Hospital
- When Drugmakers Pay for Medical Training, Just What’s Being Taught?
- Why You May Need a Health Advocate
- Your Lab Results Decoded
- ‘I’m Sorry’ State Laws Favor Doctors Who Apologize for Mistakes