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Stephen Farber
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Founder of HealthHive, PBC. Vice Chair, American Society on Aging. Exploring how health, aging, caregiving, and community can work together around the person, with greater continuity, context, and human connection. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sfarber/
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I've spent years watching family, aides, & neighbors notice what no chart records, ^ wondering why it so rarely reaches anyone who can act. I think about aging, caregiving, & Medicaid. Founder, HealthHive PBC; Vice Chair, American Society on Aging. #introduction www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
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A physician sees diabetes.
The plan sees claims.
The health center knows her ride stopped coming.
Her daughter knows the 'non-adherence' is confusion after a hospital stay.
Each is right. None has the whole picture.
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October 8, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Person-centered care has mostly meant getting healthcare to listen better. Three recent moves (Facktor Ventures, ACAP's Innovation Fund, nonprofit SCAN's retail partnerships) raise a harder question: who decides what gets built in the first place?

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Who Gets to Build Healthcare?
For years we have asked healthcare to listen to the people it serves. Fewer of us have asked who decides what gets built in the first…
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October 6, 2026 at 12:52 PM
I've spent years watching family, aides, & neighbors notice what no chart records, ^ wondering why it so rarely reaches anyone who can act. I think about aging, caregiving, & Medicaid. Founder, HealthHive PBC; Vice Chair, American Society on Aging. #introduction www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
Health Affairs Journal
www.healthaffairs.org
October 2, 2026 at 2:42 PM