Question

Discuss how changes in U.S. demographics will impact the health care industry in the future. What do you anticipate will need to change to meet these demographic changes? How do you think other related industries (e.g., insurance companies, government entities, changes to technology) will respond to the changing needs that diversity presents to the health care industry? How have they responded in the past?

Answer 1

The US demographic can impact the future of health care in the following ways

• It has meet the needs of the growing population of baby boomers (As they are expected to be one in every five people )
• The government has to increase the insurance count which can burden the financial status of the government
• The need for increased healthcare professional services to care for chronic conditions
• The need for extra equipment services will drastically increase

Some of the things which can be anticipated to change to meet this need are

• Sophisticated equipment, devices to monitor patient continuously
• Increase in home health agencies
• Increased nursing skill facility
• Extra screening of the population for ailments and preventive diseases

The technological companies and manufacturer will try to go for developing new devices which can be implantable and read the patient changes anywhere at anytime .

They have responded in the past by creating equipments like smart device ,etc.,