Promising approaches to reduce loneliness for older adults in community and institutional settings.

High-need, high-cost older adult patients detail their health care goals, which may inform provider efforts to effectively engage with and care for these patients and their family caregivers.

Among high-cost Medicare enrollees, those who are seriously ill, frail, and/or had a serious mental illness experience the most potentially preventable spending.

Strategies for reducing the impact of social isolation and loneliness on older adults.

Highlighted lessons from two recent studies to help guide future program and measurement approaches for complex care management interventions.

Ten common attributes for successful care management programs serving high-need, high-cost populations.

Accountable care organizations must address key funding, community partnership, and data sharing requirements to successfully integrate social services into medical care.

Complex care management program for high-need, high-cost Medicaid patients demonstrates substantially lower spending and inpatient utilization.

Providing virtual case mentoring to outpatient care teams may reduce unnecessary hospital and emergency department visits for high-need, high-cost patients.

Connecting complex care teams with specialists through videoconferencing can increase their effectiveness in caring for high-need high-cost patients.

Randomized controlled trial of a care management intervention offers important lessons for the field of complex care.

This robust online database provides detailed information on evidence-based dementia caregiving programs to better support family caregivers.

Medicare Advantage plans should identify patients based on medical and social risk factors, not just medical diagnoses.

Using patient-self reported data instead of only utilization outcomes may enable better segmentation of older adults.

Accountable Care Organization leaders explore approaches to segmenting high-need, high-cost populations.

A unique cross-sector partnership involving health care, police, and emergency services improved health care utilization in this rural health system pilot.

Recommendations for integrating social and health care to improve the nation’s health.

Impact of social needs navigation program on future utilization of patients with prior high utilization.

Multiple factors, including geographic variation in available resources, may limit take-up among MA plans of new benefit flexibilities.

A model to improve health and quality of life for rural seniors.