Facilitated Access to Community Services for Aging Housing Residents: TheResident Advisor Program. Final Report

摘要

Older New Yorkers overwhelmingly prefer to remain in their own homes. For many ofthem 'home' is state or federally assisted multi-unit housing. As growing numbers of older residents 'age in place,' caregivers, service providers amd housing management face new challenges and responsibilities to link them with the appropriate community based resources, and to insure that living environments accommodate their increased frailty in later years. New York was among nine states to receive Administraton on Aging (AoA) funding through a discretionary grant initiative to: demonstrate an exemplary approach to increasing supportive services to residents of federally assisted housing for older persons; and promote wider recognition of the nature and scope of problems associated with seniors 'aging in place' in federal housing.