This initiative aims to address issues of access to quality and equitable medical care for older adults with chronic disease conditions through a home-based primary care program. The proposal has two related components—the refinement and expansion of the house call...
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 SafeSpace project seeks to build an online application to be used for a fall 2020 training and certification of the home visitors who will use the application to help high-risk families navigate to existing and emerging intervention resources. The application will...
The Michigan Parkinson Foundation will produce six training videos for direct care workers in non-acute care institutions, home healthcare agencies, and assisted living facilities. These videos will focus on best practices for daily care and management of Parkinson’s...
Caring for the Caregiver is modeled after the Age-Friendly Community and Communities for a Lifetime assessment tools. The tool will measure how well the health and social service systems in the state’s municipalities and counties are supporting informal caregivers....
Region VII Area Agency on Aging will design a new reimbursable service to provide preventative health care and pharmacy benefits to home-bound older adults in rural areas who do not have adequate access to a primary care physician and may rely on emergency rooms for...
This project addresses social isolation for older adults in Marquette County. Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly’s comprehensive home visiting program will connect isolated seniors with compassionate, trained community volunteers who will provide social support...
Cherry Health will implement a new Infant Mental Health Program serving all of Kent County, Michigan. This program will improve the health and wellbeing of infants through the certification of two Infant Mental Health Therapists that will provide in-home support and...
This grant will support a volunteer-mediated, home-based intervention program to enhance quality of life for terminally ill patients and their family caregivers. This novel pilot project will use trained volunteers to share caregiving best practices with family...
