Description

Session Description

Older adults aging in affordable housing face challenges: Their fixed incomes may make it difficult to keep up with the rising costs of rent, food, transportation, and medical care. Concerns about personal safety may limit their comfort in travelling away from home and online and telemarketing scams, as well as a lack of access to or lack of comfort in using technology may make telehealth not a viable alternative. 

During this session, senior staff from Maryland-based affordable housing owner-operators will share the strategies they use to bring place-based care to their older adult residents. By working with local healthcare partners to bring back medical house calls, they provide preventive care and health screenings where people live… just like it used to be.

Session Takeaways

• Participants will learn about racial and economic inequities for older adults aging in affordable housing
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• Participants will hear lessons learned from three affordable housing owner-operators partnering with local healthcare providers to bring place-based care to older residents.
  
  
• Participants will see testimonials from healthcare providers and their patients about the impact that place-based care has on their overall health outcomes.

Ideal Audience Description

This session is ideal for community-based organizations, affordable housing owner-operators, healthcare and other professionals who serve older adults aging in community and are interested in improving the healthcare outcomes of that growing population.