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Topics: Home Delivered Meals, Chronic Disease Management, Food Security, Malnutrition, Case Manager

Medically-tailored meals provide the right nutrition for those managing chronic conditions. Studies show that food is medicine for the prevention, management, and treatment of disease.

Topics: Chronic Disease Management, Healthy Home Delivered Meals, Medically-Tailored Meals, Medicare Advantage

The annual open enrollment time for Medicare is fast approaching! From October 15 to December 7, adults age 65 and over will need to select the type of Medicare plan they want for 2021. There are more choices than ever, and it's essential to review your options before carefully making a decision.

Topics: Home Delivered Meals, Medicare, Telemedicine, Medicare Advantage

 

Topics: Home Delivered Meals, Heart Disease, Healthcare Cost Reduction, Food Insecurity, Older Adults, Medicare Advantage

We know avoiding hospitalizations is a top priority for health plans. One way to keep your members out of the hospital, and to reduce the chance of readmission, is to prevent malnutrition. In fact, roughly one-third of patients who are not malnourished at admission will become so during their stay. Weight loss, being underweight, and failure-to-thrive/malnutrition have all been associated with readmission within 30 days of discharge.

Topics: Home Delivered Meals, Malnutrition, Post Discharge, Senior Nutrition

Holiday shopping for loved ones can be difficult, especially when it comes to older adults in your life. But the holidays are about thoughtfulness and a meaningful gift no matter how small, can make a big difference to them now more than ever.

Topics: Seniors, Shopping for seniors

This is the third in a series of four articles in our Fall Into Better Health series.

Making up more than 60% of our body, water isn’t just an important part of staying healthy; it’s vital in keeping us alive. From properly balancing bodily fluids to kidney function, hydration keeps our body working the way it should be—which becomes increasingly more important as we age. 

Topics: Senior Nutrition, Baby Boomers, Dehydration

 

This is the first in a series of four articles in our Fall Into Better Health series.

Maintaining our health as we age ensures wellness, happiness, and longevity. Through routine checks of our blood pressure, heart, eyes, and even bones, doctor visits are a must, but we tend to forget about checking in on one critical part: Our brain. The good news, however, is that there are many ways to ensure it stays healthy and sharp, and with the new discoveries surrounding brain aging, there are many important reasons.

Topics: Senior Health, Aging Well, Senior Nutrition

 

With more than 20 million Medicare beneficiaries now enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans, the demand for more freedom and flexibility with healthcare plan options has never been higher. Which, for health plans, means it’s more crucial than ever to make sure you’re offering the convenience and service it takes to maintain current membership – while attracting new members.

Topics: Medicare, Senior Health Plans

 

 

With a total annual cost of disease-associated malnutrition in the U.S. totaling more than $147 billion, it is perhaps perplexing and troubling that nutrition still remains poorly misunderstood by healthcare providers, administrators and payers alike. But mistaken or not, over the past few years, one thing is certain: Reducing hospital readmissions is at the forefront of healthcare organizations across the country.

Topics: Healthcare Cost Reduction, Post Discharge