Skip to main content
  • About Us
  • Careers
  • Contact

Search form

American Institutes for Research

  • Our Work
    • Education
    • Health
    • International
    • Workforce
    • ALL TOPICS >
  • Our Services
    • Research and Evaluation
    • Technical Assistance
  • Our Experts
  • News & Events

You are here

  • Home
1 Dec 2016
Brief

All Together Now: Integrating Health and Community Supports for Older Adults

Shannah Koss, Koss on Care
Beth Almeida, AIR

With 10,000 Baby Boomers turning 65 each day, policy makers are facing the following critical questions about how to meet the requirements of an aging society: (1) How are needs changing? (2) What programs will best meet these emerging needs? (3) How should these programs be financed?

Three key trends will inform these policy decisions. First, research tells us that Americans prefer to “age in place,” meaning that they want to stay connected with their support networks and find resources in the local communities of their choice. This preference is strong and growing. Second, projections indicate that up to two-thirds of older Americans will likely need some form of extended long-term care. And third, because of trends in geographic mobility, these individuals will have fewer family supports nearby to help meet their care needs. Together, these trends suggest the need to re-examine current support programs and services to ensure that they will meet the coming needs of older Americans.

This brief is the first in a two-part series about policies and programs that provide resources and services for aging in place. It reviews evidence indicating that public programs, as currently structured, are underfunded and fragmented, and it examines the evolving policy and funding landscape. It also documents promising changes in the delivery and integration of supportive services in public programs and makes recommendations to advance policies for aging in place. The second brief, Community-Based Models for Aging in Place, explores community-based grassroots initiatives, assessing how they support individuals’ goals to age in place and identifying public policies and programs that could sustain and expand similar initiatives.

PDF icon All Together Now: Integrating Health and Community Supports for Older Adults (PDF)

Related Work

1 Dec 2016
Brief

Community-Based Models for Aging in Place

The “graying of America” calls for new solutions to enable older Americans to age in place in their communities of choice. This issue brief reviews three community-based models—cohousing, villages, and livable communities—that are filling critical gaps in services directed at those who want to age in place.
Topic: 
Health, Aging
30 Nov 2016
News Release

Health and Community Supports Can Lower Health Costs for Older Americans, but Funding Remains a Challenge

Community-based services and programs aiming to improve older Americans’ social engagement and quality of life promote health at a fraction of the cost of medical interventions, according to two new briefs by AIR's Center on Aging. These models suggest a win-win pathway to addressing soaring healthcare costs and improving the well-being of the nation’s rapidly growing older population.

Further Reading

  • Community-Based Models for Aging in Place
  • Health and Community Supports Can Lower Health Costs for Older Americans, but Funding Remains a Challenge
  • Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health (TA Partnership)
  • The Role of System of Care Communities in Developing and Sustaining School Mental Health Services
  • Is Expanding Public-Financed Home Care Cost-Effective?
Share

Topic

Health
Aging

Related Center

Center on Aging

RESEARCH. EVALUATION. APPLICATION. IMPACT.

About Us

About AIR
Board of Directors
Leadership
Experts
Clients
Contracting with AIR
Contact Us

Our Work

Education
Health
International
Workforce

Client Services

Research and Evaluation
Technical Assistance

News & Events

Careers at AIR


Search form


 

Connecting

FacebookTwitterLinkedinYouTubeInstagram

American Institutes for Research

1400 Crystal Drive, 10th Floor
Arlington, VA 22202-3289
Call: (202) 403-5000
Fax: (202) 403-5000

Copyright © 2021 American Institutes for Research®.  All rights reserved.

  • Privacy Policy
  • Sitemap