{"id":19976,"date":"2020-08-19T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=19976"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:50","slug":"telehealth-visits-skyrocket-for-older-adults-but-concerns-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/19\/telehealth-visits-skyrocket-for-older-adults-but-concerns-remain\/","title":{"rendered":"Telehealth visits skyrocket for older adults, but concerns remain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Telehealth-poll-768x432-1-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"female physician on laptop screen\" class=\"wp-image-20158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Telehealth-poll-768x432-1-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Telehealth-poll-768x432-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Telehealth-poll-768x432-1-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Telehealth-poll-768x432-1-665x374.jpg 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Telehealth-poll-768x432-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>(Michigan Medicine Headlines)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One in four older Americans had a\u00a0virtual medical visit in the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of them by video, <a href=\"https:\/\/mmheadlines.org\/2020\/08\/telehealth-visits-skyrocket-for-older-adults-but-concerns-and-barriers-remain\/\">a new telehealth poll finds<\/a>. That\u2019s much higher than the 4 percent of people over 50 who said they had ever had a virtual visit with a doctor in a\u00a0similar poll taken in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet not all older adults see virtual care as an adequate substitute for in-person care, even in a pandemic, the\u00a0National Poll on Healthy Aging\u00a0findings show. Both the 2019 and 2020 polls were done by U-M\u2019s Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation with support from AARP and Michigan Medicine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese findings have implications for the health providers who have ramped up telehealth offerings rapidly, and for the insurance companies and government agencies that have quickly changed their policies to cover virtual visits,\u201d said\u00a0Lorraine Buis, a health information technology researcher at U-M who helped design the poll and interpret its results. \u201cTracking change over time could inform future efforts, and highlights the need for much more research on concerns, barriers and optimal use of telehealth by older adults.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One in four older Americans had a\u00a0virtual medical visit in the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of them by video, a new telehealth poll finds. That\u2019s much higher than the 4 percent of people over 50 who said they had ever had a virtual visit with a doctor in a\u00a0similar poll taken in 2019. Yet\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/19\/telehealth-visits-skyrocket-for-older-adults-but-concerns-remain\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[489,51,539],"class_list":["post-19976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-health-care","tag-medical","tag-telehealth"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Telehealth-poll-768x432-1.jpg",768,432,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Telehealth-poll-768x432-1-200x113.jpg",200,113,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Telehealth-poll-768x432-1-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Telehealth-poll-768x432-1.jpg",665,374,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Telehealth-poll-768x432-1-700x394.jpg",600,338,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Telehealth-poll-768x432-1.jpg",768,432,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Telehealth-poll-768x432-1.jpg",768,432,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Telehealth-poll-768x432-1-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Telehealth-poll-768x432-1-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Telehealth-poll-768x432-1-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Telehealth-poll-768x432-1-665x374.jpg",665,374,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Telehealth-poll-768x432-1.jpg",400,225,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"One in four older Americans had a\u00a0virtual medical visit in the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of them by video, a new telehealth poll finds. That\u2019s much higher than the 4 percent of people over 50 who said they had ever had a virtual visit with a doctor in a\u00a0similar poll taken&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20160,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19976\/revisions\/20160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}