Below, find on-the-ground perspectives or experiences in implementing community health worker programs for older adults. Featured case studies may be useful for organizations interested in implementing these initiatives.
Bridges to Elders: A Program to Improve Outcomes for Older Women Experiencing Homelessness
Program led by a nurse practitioner and community health worker improved housing stability, access to primary care, and chronic disease management among older women experiencing homelessness.
Building Healthy Communities: Community Health Worker Impact on Older Adults in Texas
Evaluation shares health, social, emotional, and financial outcomes resulting from community health worker programs for older adults in Texas.
Coaching Older Adults to Manage Depression: Program to Encourage Active, Rewarding Lives
Profiles the Program to Encourage Active, Rewarding Lives (PEARLS), an evidence-based treatment program for older adults experiencing late-life depression, and how the program is decreasing access barriers to behavioral health services for older adults.
Support and Services at Home (SASH): Helping Older Adults and People with Disabilities in Affordable Housing Age in Place
Profiles Support and Services at Home, a model that is empowering older adults and people with disabilities to remain at home via in-home supports and services.
Positioning Community Health and Social Workers to Address Older Adults’ Social Needs: Lessons from SCAN Health Plan
Shared practical implementation considerations that can support health plans and provider groups in developing community-based models of care that use the strengths of social workers and community health workers.
A Housing and Health Collaboration: Mount Rubidoux Manor and Inland Empire Health Plan
Embedding a health navigator in a senior housing community improved residents’ sense of physical, mental, and social well-being.
Cost-Effective Care Coordination for People with Dementia at Home
A multidisciplinary care coordination program for older adults with dementia demonstrated a positive return on investment and Medicaid cost savings.
