Identifying potential health care innovations for the future elderly

Health Aff (Millwood). 2005;24 Suppl 2(Suppl 2):W5R67-76. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.w5.r67.

Abstract

We used a method that combined literature review and expertjudgment to assess potential medical innovations for older adults. We evaluated innovations in four domains: cardiovascular disease, cancer, the biology of aging, and neurologic disease. The innovations can be categorized by common themes: improved disease prevention, better detection of subclinical or early clinical disease, and treatments for established disease. We report the likelihood, potential impact, and potential cost implications for thirty-four innovations, and we revisit this forecast five years later. Many of the innovations have the potential to greatly affect the costs and outcomes of health care.

Publication types

  • Historical Article
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Diffusion of Innovation*
  • History, 21st Century
  • Humans
  • Interviews as Topic
  • Primary Health Care*
  • United States