“SCAN Survey Reveals Majority of Seniors Are Not Adequately Prepared to Age in Place,” SCAN Health Plan

“SCAN Health Plan®, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit Medicare Advantage health plans, today announced results from its national survey on aging in place. Responses from 1,000 U.S. adults ages 65 and older indicate that 62% believe most seniors they know are unlikely to be able to safely age in place. … Seeing their peers unable to live life on their own terms, seniors are rethinking their own readiness to age in place. In assessing people they know, 67% of seniors cite changes to physical health—such as injury or loss of mobility—as the bigger challenge for aging in place, while 34% say changes to brain health, such as memory loss or Alzheimer’s, are the main challenge. Furthermore, 61% have friends who have had a severe decrease in physical abilities; 45% have friends who have lost the ability to drive; and 45% know people who have sustained an injury from an accident, such as a fall.”

LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):

Getting real about aging in place. Thanks to Stephen D. Forman of Center corporate member Long Term Care Associates for tipping us to this story.