Understanding the impact of mistrust on health equity—and putting in place interventions to increase the trustworthiness of healthcare and aging services —has become increasingly urgent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, the healthcare systems’ ability to help people make the best decisions for themselves and their families requires a key ingredient: trust.

… the Health Anchor Network, a consortium of healthcare systems and institutions, has identified racism as a public health crisis, stating a “commitment to providing anti-racism and unconscious bias training for our administrators, physicians, nurses, and staff.”

Read the full article from the American Society on Aging