Demographic destinies -- Chronic illness in America today -- How well does American medicine deal with chronic illness? -- The patient-centered medical home -- Disability and chronic illness -- The chronic care model: designed to avoid the avoidable -- Financing chronic care -- The primary care shortfall: a wakeup call for an aging society -- Redesigning health care delivery for the age of chronic care -- The reach of the 2010 healthcare reform law: implications for chronic care.