Medicare 2003: A Beginning or an End? (Volume 13, Number 4)

* Medicare Reform: Fact, Fiction, and Foolishness
* Medicare Rx: Just a Few of the Reasons Why It Was So Difficult to Pass
* Medicare: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
* Medicare Privatization: The Case of "Fallback" Drug Coverage
* The Social Security and Medicare Debate Three Years After the 2000 Election
* Groundhog Day: The Endless Debate Over Medicare Reform

Authors: Theodore R. Marmor, Jacob S. Hacker, William G. Weissert, Robert B. Hudson, Edward F. Lawlor, Stephen Crystal

Disparities in Health Status and Health Care (Volume 13 Number 3)

* The Landscape of Health Disparities Among Older Adults
* Disparities in Health Status and Health Care
* Hispanic Diversity and Health Care Coverage
* Weathering Towards Poorer Health in Later Life: Co-morbidity in Urban Low-income Families
* Pathways to Progress in Eliminating Racial Disparities in Health

Authors: Keith E. Whitfield, Mark Hayward, Linda Burton, Robert B. Hudson, Jacqueline L. Angel, Ronald J. Angel, Thomas A. LaVeist

Emerging Crisis: The Geriatric Care Workforce (Volume 13, Number 2)

* Emerging Crisis: The Geriatric Care Workforce
* Swimming Upstream: Geriatric Mental Health Workforce
* Frontline Caregivers in Nursing Facilities: Can Policy Help in Recruitment and Retention Crisis
* The Geriatric Social Work Labor Force: Challenges and Opportunities
* Training Physicians in Geriatric Care: Responding to Critical Need
* Nursing's Geriatric Workforce: Caring for Older Adults

Authors: Robert B. Hudson, Dennis G. Shea, Susan C. Eaton, Judith G. Gonyea, Alexandra Curley, Greg O'Neill, Mathy Mezey, Christina Tassone Kovner

Law, Policy, and the End-of-Life (Volume 13, Number 1)

* End-of-Life Care: Issues and Options
* De-Balkanizing State Advance Directive Law
* End-of-Life Care: How Do We Pay For It?
* End-of-Life Care for the Medicaid Population
* The New Place of End-of-Life Issues on the Policy Agenda
* SPECIAL SECTION: Means to a Better End: A Report on Dying in America Today (excerpt)

Authors: Charles P. Sabatino, Judith R. Peres, Jane A. Tilly, Joshua M. Wiener, Myra J. Christopher.