ReviewFrontiers in public health2023
How heavy is the medical expense burden among the older adults and what are the contributing factors? A literature review and problem-based analysis.
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42 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Implementation science in care for older adults across healthcare settings: a scoping review.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2026Pooled it
- Effect of mobile applications in oral health promotion among elderly people: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC oral health · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of digitalized traditional Chinese exercises on the physical and mental health and quality of life of older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
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- Effects of multicomponent training and HMB supplementation on disability, cognitive and physical function in institutionalized older adults aged over 70 years: a cluster-randomized controlled trial.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2024Trial
- Factors Associated with Treatment Burden in Older Adults with Multimorbidity and Implications for Potential Reduction Strategies: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- How Much Chronic Disease Out-of-Pocket Expenditure Runs Through Pain? A Prospective Counterfactual Decomposition of Five-Year Korean Panel Data.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Article
- Lean Adoption in Healthcare: Between Promise and Practice.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- The impact of carbon emissions trading scheme on residents' medical expenses: a test based on multi-period difference-in-differences method.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Aging is not a disease: an evolutionary and comparative biological reappraisal.Biogerontology · 2026Review
- Impacts of cost-sharing rate increment on the expenditure of outpatient care among older adults: quasi-experimental study of cost-sharing reform in Japan.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Monocytes are biological sensors of aging and frailty in humans.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Development of Machine Learning Models to Predict Health Insurance Claim Costs Among Older Indonesians: A Retrospective Predictive Modeling Study.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2026Article
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- Cumulative Effects of Multiple Modifiable Risk Factors on Cardiovascular Disease Mortality.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Are smart older adult care devices "cost-reducing and efficiency-enhancing" or "demand-activating"?-Empirical evidence from Chinese older adult households.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Interpretable machine learning enables early identification of financial risk and resource optimization in colorectal cancer surgery.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Rebalancing health investment across the life course: a high-value age segments framework for aging societies.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Clinical significance of the systemic immune-inflammation index in relation to pathology, treatment and outcomes in acute appendicitis: a retrospective study.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
- Economic and demographic influences on health expenditures: robust approaches for income and aging effects.Health economics review · 2025Article
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Abstract
In recent years, the aging population and increasing medical expenses among the older adults have emerged as significant public health concerns. National governments must conduct medical expense accounting and implement measures to reduce the burden of medical costs on the older population. However, limited studies have focused on total medical expenditure from a macro perspective, with many researches exploring individual medical expenses from different perspectives. This review introduces the trend of population aging and its impact on health cost change, reviews research on the medical expense burden of the older population and contributing factors, and points out underlying problems and limitations of current studies. Based on the present studies, the review emphasizes the necessity of medical expense accounting and analyzes the medical expense burden of the older population. Future studies should explore the impacts of medical insurance funds and health service system reforms on reducing medical expenses and developing a supporting medical insurance reform plan.
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