National Eldercare Institute on Housing and Supportive Services. Final Report

摘要

The National Eldercare Institute on Housing and Supportive Services wasestablished as a public-private consortium of the Andrus Gerontology Center of the University of Southern California (Andrus), the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (NAAAA) and the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae). To increase the availability and utilization of housing and supportive service programs, the Institute recognized that there was a critical need to: improve coordination among housing, health, and social services sectors; involve prominent organizations and individuals at national, state and local levels who, as yet, have not played major roles in expanding housing and supportive services for elderly; identify and anlayze more succinctly what supportive housing options work and, more importantly, why; enhance the capacity of the aging network to play a more definitive leadership role; and raise the awareness of consumers, lenders, housing developers, service providers and other policy influentials so that less conventional supportive housing options become more acceptable as mainstream solutions.