What The Study Did: This study uses 2018 data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study to assess how common it is for older adults in the United States to be unprepared to access video or telephone telemedicine because of disability or inexperience with technology.
Authors: Kenneth Lam, M.D., of the University of California, San Francisco, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.2671)
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