This proposal will accelerate the development of the infrastructure needed to support statewide contracting for the Area Agencies on Aging, which will lead to more and higher quality services for older adults living in Michigan communities for years to come. Area...
This project will launch an Aging in Place Home Repair Program, focusing on critical home repairs for older adults to age in place. The initiative will allow partners to work together during the intake process, facilitating warm transfers and referrals, including...
This project will meet the needs of homebound older adults by enhancing in-home telehealth counseling with on-site assistance by a community health worker (CHW) and expanding therapy services beyond the current program to provide therapy in the homes of homebound...
The Senior Health and Housing Initiative will offer a personalized, comprehensive, and coordinated way to assess and address the social and physical needs of older adults living in Detroit’s high-rise apartments. These older adults, most of whom are low-income with...
Generations United will develop the Ypsilanti Intergenerational Community Solutions Institute (YICSI), which will bring together key stakeholders in the City of Ypsilanti to plan intergenerational initiatives to reduce social isolation and improve health outcomes for...
This initiative will translate and adapt the evidence-based Matter of Balance program to reduce falls for Michigan’s Arabic speaking aging population. This program does not currently exist in Arabic and its founders have given permission to adapt the program to be...
The Healthy Aging at Home project will address the needs of an aging population in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula by coordinating regional primary health, behavioral health, and social services to improve access to care for some of the most vulnerable older adults, so...
Through the initiative, hundreds of older adults will be able to safely remain in their own home through equitable access to evidence-based product safety interventions and connection to other resources in the community that can improve health and wellbeing. Wayne...
This initiative will establish a reimbursement model and telehealth strategy to sustain the HOP-UP-PT (Home-based Older Persons-Upstreaming Prevention-Physical Therapy) program, which connects older adults to physical therapists who can provide strategies to...
