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Zirui Song1,2, Timothy G Ferris3,4
1Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. song@hcp.med.harvard.edu.
Abstract:
The United States is facing a significant demographic transition, with about 10,000 baby boomers turning age 65 each day. At the same time, the nation is experiencing a similarly striking transition in hospital capacity, as the supply of hospital beds has declined in recent decades. The juxtaposition of population aging and hospital capacity portends a potentially widening divergence between supply and demand for hospital care. We provide a closer look at current hospital capacity and a rethinking of the future role of hospital beds in meeting the needs of an aging population.
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