Health Status and Medical Treatment of the Future Elderly

Abstract

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) must generate accurate predictions of future spending for planning purposes. To investigate a better method for understanding how medical breakthroughs and demographic trends will affect future Medicare costs, CMS contracted with RAND to develop models to project how changes in health status, disease, and disability among the next generation of elderly will affect future spending.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA427404

Entities

People

  • Dana P. Goldman
  • Geoffrey F. Joyce
  • Jayanta Bhattacharya
  • Michael Hurd
  • Paul G. Shekelle

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena
  • Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Cardiovascular System
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Health Services
  • Medical Personnel

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Economics
  • Medical or Health Care Field.