Older adults feel strongly about having and maintaining adequate health insurance.
Yet, many older people have little knowledge or understanding about their options for receiving Medicare benefits. When they do or do not need a supplemental insurance policy can be baffling. Forty Five hundred packets were distributed in forty four counties for Medicare beneficiaries via hospitals, physician's offices and county extension offices. An in-service, the ABCs of Medicare was presented for county extension educators. In partnership with the Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality Medicare up-date and Medicare Overview, was offered for Medicare beneficiaries in five Oklahoma counties.