One in four older Americans had a virtual medical visit in the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of them by video, a new National Poll on Healthy Aging finds. That's much higher than the 4% of people over 50 who said they had ever had a virtual visit with a doctor in a similar poll taken in 2019.

Yet not all older adults see virtual care as an adequate substitute for in-person care, even in a pandemic.

Guest Speakers:

• Jonathan Cohn, Senior National Correspondent at the Huffington Post
• John McDonough, Dr.PH., M.P.A., Professor of Practice, Department of Health Policy & Management and Director of Executive and Continuing Professional Education at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
• Marianne Udow-Phillips, M.H.S.A., Founding Executive Director of the
  Center for Health and Research Transformation
• Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at Project Hope

The timeliness of mail delivery may affect access to medication for many middle-aged and older adults, according to a new analysis of data from the National Poll on Healthy Aging. Nearly one in four people in this age group said they receive at least one medication by mail, but that percentage rises to 29% when the poll results are limited to people who take at least one prescription medication.

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