Health Care Access and COVID-19 Vaccination in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.

Background: Although federal legislation made COVID-19 vaccines free, inequities in access to medical care may affect vaccine uptake.

Objective: To assess whether health care access was associated with uptake and timeliness of COVID-19 vaccination in the United States.

Design: A cross-sectional study.

The Next Best Thing: Three Key Conversations to Convey Prognosis Over the Course of an Incurable Cancer.

Introduction: Waiting until a person is very near end of life to discuss limited life expectancy risks lower goal-concordant care and increased utilization of medical interventions with lower likelihood of benefit at the end of life. Medical training on communication skills in serious illness often focuses on early and late conversations regarding prognosis, with no guidance on navigating the conversations occurring in the middle of the illness course.

Goal Of The Review: We propose a new framework for identifying and discussing prognosis at various points along the cancer course, as a continuum from beginning to end, that is prompted by changes in clinical status and number of available remaining cancer directed interventions.

A Collaborative Approach to Dementia Inclusion in Social Work Education: The Dementia Intensive.

There are 5.8 million Americans with Alzheimer's disease and this number is rising. Social Work can play a key role.