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What Does a Post-Pandemic Presidency Mean for Medicare?
Aimee Cicchiello, Gretchen Jacobson. Public Policy & Aging Report, 2020-01-01
Topic: Risk, prevention and care in population studies
Social isolation and loneliness are associated with significant negative impacts on mental and physical health, including heart disease, stroke, depression, cancer, and dementia. The reduction in use of home health care is one example of declines in health care services as a result of measures to slow the spread of COVID-19, and exemplifies the tough choices beneficiaries have had to make about receiving ongoing health care. The Medicare program has been modernized in a short time frame as a result of beneficiaries’ needs and circumstances during the pandemic.
Key findings
- Social isolation and loneliness are associated with significant negative impacts on mental and physical health, including heart disease, stroke, depression, cancer, and dementia.
- The reduction in use of home health care is one example of declines in health care services as a result of measures to slow the spread of COVID-19, and exemplifies the tough choices beneficiaries have had to make about receiving ongoing health care.
- The Medicare program has been modernized in a short time frame as a result of beneficiaries’ needs and circumstances during the pandemic.
Why it matters
This article notes that social isolation and loneliness are linked to negative health effects including dementia, and that COVID-19 measures reduced home health care use. It discusses Medicare changes during the pandemic but reports no test of any treatment, cure, or prevention for Alzheimer's disease.
Study details
- Evidence strengthLow
How this study scored 15/100
Report — not peer-reviewed. It scored 15 on the same rubric, which is below the 16 cap we apply to non-peer-reviewed sources. Scored zero for study design, sample size, effect reported, studied in people and randomised / blinded because the record does not state it.
| Component | Points | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Journal tier | 2 / 10 | Tier 4 — not a peer-reviewed journal (Public Policy & Aging Report) |
| Journal's citation record | 0 / 4 | Not a journal article, so the journal's record does not count |
| Study design | 0 / 12 | No study design recorded — scores zero, not guessed (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Strength of evidence | 1 / 5 | Rated “low” in our summary |
| Peer-review validation | 3 / 10 | Report — not peer-reviewed. Named source is an organisational report, not a journal article. |
| How recent | 2 / 5 | 2020 — within 10 year(s) of the newest study here |
| Sample size | 0 / 4 | Participant count not stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Effect reported | 0 / 3 | No effect size reported — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Studied in people | 0 / 3 | Not stated whether this was studied in people — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Randomised / blinded | 0 / 2 | No randomisation or blinding stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Times cited | 1 / 7 | Cited 2 times (OpenAlex, 2026-10-10) |
| Citations per year | 0 / 5 | 0.2 citations a year over 8 year(s) since 2020 |
| Impact for its field and year | 1 / 6 | Cited 0.4× the average for papers of its field and year (OpenAlex FWCI) |
| Cited by studies here | 0 / 6 | No other study in this library cites it |
| Still being cited | 0 / 4 | Cited 0 times in 2024–2026 (2026 still in progress; OpenAlex) |
| Senior author's track record | 1 / 4 | Last-listed author Gretchen Jacobson: h-index 15 (OpenAlex, whole career) |
| Institution's track record | 0 / 3 | Commonwealth Fund: institution h-index 163 (OpenAlex) |
| Multi-centre collaboration | 0 / 3 | OpenAlex lists 1 institution(s) in 1 country — scores zero (affiliation lists can be incomplete) |
| Indexed in PubMed | 2 / 2 | Indexed in PubMed (PMID 34191899) |
| Free to read | 2 / 2 | Free to read |
| Total | 15 / 100 | — |
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Read the original
- DOI: 10.1093/ppar/praa031
- PubMed: 34191899
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- Free full text: Public Policy & Aging Report →
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APA 7th
Cicchiello, A., & Jacobson, G. (2020). What Does a Post-Pandemic Presidency Mean for Medicare? Public Policy & Aging Report. https://doi.org/10.1093/ppar/praa031
Vancouver
Cicchiello A, Jacobson G. What Does a Post-Pandemic Presidency Mean for Medicare? Public Policy & Aging Report. 2020. doi:10.1093/ppar/praa031. PMID: 34191899.
BibTeX
@article{cicchiello2020-34191899,
author = {Cicchiello, Aimee and Jacobson, Gretchen},
title = {{What Does a Post-Pandemic Presidency Mean for Medicare?}},
journal = {Public Policy \& Aging Report},
year = {2020},
doi = {10.1093/ppar/praa031},
pmid = {34191899},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/ppar/praa031}
}
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