This is a story about my rural elderly grandparents and how the lack of culturally competent health care providers affects their health and health care. As I write this article, they are ages ninety-two and ninety-six, and they are aging in their rural Mississippi home. As rural elderly African...

Prolonged hospital stays, or hospital stays that are longer than medically necessary, are a major concern for patients, payers, and providers. We conceptualize and empirically estimate the prevalence and cost of prolonged stays among elderly hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and...