Why is measuring cost-related medication burden for Medicare beneficiaries so important?

Jessica Williams, PhD, a Harvard RWJF Health & Society program alumna, has written a piece for the blog of the journal, Medical Care in which she discusses the timeliness and value of a recently published paper that examines the instruments used to measure cost-related medication burden.

CNAs who also balance family caregiver roles make more trips to ER than their peers

RWJF Health & Society Scholar Jessica Williams, PhD, is co-author on a study by the Work, Family & Health Network (WFHN) that reveals that CNAs who also care for children or elders (double duty) as well as those who care for both generations (triple duty) utilize acute care services (emergency room/other urgent care facilities) more than CNAs without those same informal, family caregiving roles.