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Medicare Members Are Health Consumers, Too – Our AHIP Talk About Aging, Digital Immigrants, and Personalizing Health/Care

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That program has the potential to change our Medicare members manage meds at home to ensure better adherence, supporting better health outcomes and personal feelings of efficacy and control. [As Digital immigrants, first coined by Marc Prensky in 2001. Power survey on the subject attested].

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A Profile of People in Medicare Advantage Plans – HealthMine’s Survey of “Digital Immigrants”

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As digital immigrants, older people are, in the words of Prensky’s 2001 observation, “now in the process of learning a new language.” That form of literacy helps to bolster health outcomes, too.