More Than One Third Of Older Adults Will Struggle With Video-Call Telehealth Visits
Two separate studies corroborate that over a third of older adults will struggle with telehealth visits if they require the use of a video-call. The first study found that approximately 26.3% of Medicare beneficiaries are unable to access telehealth visits. Contributing to this is a lack of computers with high-speed internet (41.1% of beneficiaries) and a lack of smartphones equipped with wireless data plans (40.9% of beneficiaries). An additional study found that an estimated 13 million seniors, or approximately 38.0% of …
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