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With an aging population, there is a greater demand for geriatric, palliative, and hospice care. The need for more chronic disease management is also encouraging a shift to preventative care and self-accountability for health behaviors that lead to chronic disease.

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"We're trying to keep people well. And we're trying to ensure people have fewer patient days and that they stay out of the hospital and all that—just stay healthier. So, you might stay healthier longer. Let's say that somebody stays healthy until 80 instead of 70, or until 90 instead of 80, or until 100 instead of 90—but eventually the body gives way and at the end of life, those last two years is where the health care drives costs up. And we always have a last two years of life—whether it's at 62 or 82 or 102 or 122—I don't care when it is, but I don't know that we're going to have any less...

Question: So, those last two years of focused care could be with people who are much older?

Employer: We're talking about accountable care to keep everybody healthy. Well, okay, groovy. We're going to keep people healthy, but eventually, there is an end of life when you're not healthy. So, I'm wondering about that. I'm not sure that the numbers are—the cost is—going to get any less for those two years..."		 Northeast
"Right now, almost a third of Medicare dollars is spent on the last two years of life. I think those dollars should be taken and put on the first years of life, teaching teens how to be healthier, eat healthier, be active.

Advanced care planning, I think, is very important with the chronic disease management. What kind of care do you want? You go into an ER, and it's assumed you want everything done and you end up in ICU. That's not going to fly anymore."		 Northeast