Panel, Roundtable
Healthy Living Equals Healthy Aging: How Where We Live, Work and Play Can Impact Our Longevity
Milken InstituteAnand Parekh, Catherine Anderson, Frank Diana, Omar Nagji, Allison Silberberg, Pattie Dale Tye
- Humana aims to improve community health by 20% by 2020 using CDC "Healthy Days" metrics, plans to replicate its partnership model currently active in 12 locations, and intends to publish annual reports; it also anticipates food insecurity among seniors could reach 46% (versus an assumed 15%) and plans a year-long study on remediating this issue to improve clinical outcomes, with the goal of making food a reimbursed benefit.
- Lyft intends to expand its "Roundup and Donate" program nationwide with the American Cancer Society, provide transportation for clinical trial patients to prevent dropouts, and support the "Biden's Cancer Moonshot Program," while advocating for regulatory changes to allow payment for rides and aiming to prevent 95% of Alzheimer's cases.
- UnitedHealthcare plans to scale affordable housing by investing state insurance reserves into rehabbing existing properties, layering risk stratification data with community economic data, and utilizing "pay for success" models to incentivize healthy lifestyles for the 98% of the population not currently incurring inordinate costs.
- The City of Alexandria expects its senior population to grow from its current 10%, plans to make the DASH bus system free for seniors, expand the "Snow Buddies" emergency program, replicate its "Meals on Wheels" 365-day program, and create "senior advocacy roundtables" for other cities.
- Frank predicts autonomous vehicles will serve the elderly, young, and disabled within 15 years, anticipates robotic caregivers are already a reality in Japan, and suggests the first person to live to 200 has been born; he expects an explosion in health extension innovation driven by technology convergence, rising empathy from virtual reality and the internet, and a shift toward "purpose orientation" in business and government alongside a need to balance unintended consequences.
- Demographic shifts are expected where the global population over age 60 will outnumber those under five by 2020, with over half of non-driving US seniors staying home and approximately 30% of medical appointments missed due to transportation barriers.
- Humana has developed a "loneliness toolkit" using predictive models for life events, considers optimism a key factor in preventing aging, and seeks to replicate its model broadly; UnitedHealthcare views current personal engagement and education as insufficient for desired outcomes, while Lyft aims to use case studies to demonstrate transportation's impact on care.