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.
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...
Healthy Lifetime is a personalized, virtual program that empowers older adults to maintain independence by focusing on communication skills, health habits, medication adherence, and problem-solving. This grant will expand the program into Medicaid’s home and...
The Manistee County Human Services Collaborative Body will develop a comprehensive, community-endorsed strategy to address direct care worker shortages and implement an in-home care family support program for seniors. This project will engage the community to create a...
This project will replicate community partnership programs in the Upper Peninsula, Washtenaw County, Cass County, and St. Clair counties. Homebound older adults virtually connect to social services and education, faith-based, and arts and leisure programs through an...
This grant will expand the Whatever It Takes program to the aged, blind, and disabled Medicaid population and Medicare fee for service beneficiaries in Washtenaw County. Whatever It Takes is a community paramedic program that connects appropriate medical, mental...
ROAM Care seeks to improve access to healthcare for rural, vulnerable, underserved older adults by bringing medical care to patients’ homes, developing individualized care plans, and coordinating integrated follow up services.
This project will create a toolkit to help local organizations recruit, train, and sustain volunteer caregivers and prepare those caregivers to provide in-home care to frail elders who need assistance with Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs), including...
