The LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston offers various tools to help support the development of programs that use affordable senior housing communities as a platform for the delivery of health and support services to vulnerable older adults with low incomes.
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Housing and Health Care
Partnerships Toolkits
This toolkit includes a variety of materials to help support the development of partnerships between affordable senior housing and health care providers.
SETTING THE STAGE FOR COLLABORATION
Housing and Health Care: Partners in Healthy Aging
A guidebook exploring the value of collaboration between affordable senior housing and health care providers, and factors to be considered when creating partnerships.
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Housing and Health Care: Partners in Healthy Aging
A video describing how affordable senior housing communities can assist health care entities in their mission to help vulnerable older adults manage their health.
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How Health Partnerships Benefit Housing
A video highlighting how health care entities can assist senior housing communities in their mission to help residents manage their health.
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TOOLS FOR BRINGING HOUSING AND HEALTH TOGETHER
How Housing Properties Can Help Facilitate Positive Health Outcomes
A guide describing how affordable senior housing communities can help health care entities reach a range of goals for their patients’ health and health care utilization.
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How Does Affordable Housing Work?
A guide to help health care providers understand the basics of the affordable senior housing world.
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Speaking Health Care’s Language
A glossary of health care terms to help housing providers better understand the health care world.
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Medicare and Medicaid: What’s the Difference?
A quick guide to help housing providers talk with health care entities or policy makers about the potential value that affordable senior housing can bring to Medicare and Medicaid.
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Talking with Health Care Entities about Value: A Tool for Calculating a Return on Investment
A return-on-investment calculator to help you quantify the potential financial benefits housing providers can generate for value-driven health care systems.
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VIDEO INTERVIEWS WITH EXPERTS
Housing: A Key Partner in Health Care Reform
Dr. Craig Jones, former director of the Vermont Blueprint for Health, describes how the Support and Services at Home (SASH) program was integrated into Vermont’s statewide health care reform effort.
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Housing: A Valuable Venue for Training Future Providers and Managing Vulnerable Patients’ Care
Dr. Kelechi C. Ogbanna, assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Pharmacy, explains how VCU students provided services to residents of an affordable senior housing community through an on-site health clinic.
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Housing: A Place to Implement Actionable Strategies (Part 1 of 3)
In part 1 of a 3-part interview, Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, former CEO of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, discusses the coalition’s work to bring health services to Northgate II, a senior housing development that Brenner identified as a “hot spot” of health care need.
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Opportunities to Address Diverse Population Needs (Part 2 of 3)
In part 2 of a 3-part interview, Dr. Jeffrey Brenner discusses how the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers works with housing providers to improve health outcomes for residents.
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Sharing Information: HIPAA is Not a Barrier (Part 3 of 3)
In part 3 of a 3-part interview, Dr. Jeffrey Brenner sets the record straight on the kind of information about residents that housing providers can legally share with health care providers.
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Assessing Resident Needs
Toolkit
This toolkit provides a guidebook, assessment instruments, and a tabulation mechanism to help affordable senior housing communities conduct basic assessments of resident needs and interests to help support program development.
Affordable Senior Housing: A Guide to Conducting Resident Assessments
A manual featuring a survey tool and guidance for conducting an assessment of resident needs in affordable senior housing communities.
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Resident Assessment Tool – Core Survey
A Word document featuring a survey you can use to collect information about residents’ physical and emotional health, health service use, physical activity, community and support networks, and insurance.
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Resident Assessment Tool – Interest in Programs and Activities Survey
A Word document featuring a survey you can use to assess residents’ interest in specific programs and activities.
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Resident Assessment Spreadsheet
An Excel spreadsheet to help you tabulate the responses to a resident assessment survey.
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Collaborating with Medical
House Call Programs
Doctor at Your Door: The Senior Housing Community’s Guide to Medical House Call Programs
A guide to help senior housing providers learn how medical house call programs operate and the value of collaborating with these programs.
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Intergenerational
Programming Toolkit
Connecting Generations in Senior Housing: A Program Implementation Toolkit
A toolkit to help senior housing organizations plan and implement high-quality intergenerational programs that benefit residents and young people in their communities.