Aging in Place Initiative

Housing

A comprehensive approach to home modification

The nonprofit organization People Working Cooperatively (PWC) exemplifies a comprehensive home repair and modification program that helps homeowners, including older adults, with limited resources throughout a metropolitan region.
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Accessory Dwelling Unit Development Program

For some time now, the City of Santa Cruz, California, has endured being one of the most expensive housing markets in the U.S. With less than seven percent of residents easily able to afford to buy a median-priced home in the community, the city was having trouble retaining teachers, firefighters and service workers and it decided to act. In 2003, city officials created the Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Development Program to make it easier for homeowners to create a separate housing unit attached or adjacent to their home.

HomeShare Vermont

HomeShare Vermont has been helping older adults and those with disabilities in the Champlain Valley of Vermont remain in their homes for more than 25 years. The program offers three types of services: homesharing, live-in caregiving, and hourly caregiving.
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Lapham Park Venture

Lapham Park is a public housing complex in Milwaukee with a high proportion of older and low-income residents. In 1993, a diverse group of public and private partners, including the city Housing Authority, Service Empowerment Transformation (S.E.T.) Ministry, the Lapham Park Residents Organization, and the Milwaukee County Department on Aging formed the Lapham Park Venture to develop a model of continuing care that would enable residents to age in the community. Many organizations had provided care at the Lapham, but because they did not coordinate with one another, services were fragmented, expensive and inefficient.

Money Follows the Person Program

Money Follows the Person (MFP) is a grant program of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Since 2001, when the program began, the State of Texas has emerged as a model for how older adults can receive quality care at home, while reducing state health care expenditures. Older adults who were once required to live in nursing homes and other institutions to qualify for government benefits can now receive those benefits at their homes, or in a more integrated setting of their choice.