Four toolkits offer practical guidance for developing and implementing housing plus services programs.
The LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston recently unveiled a new online home for its Housing Plus Services toolkits.
The toolkits, developed by LTSS Center researchers over the past several years, offer practical guidance for developing programs that use affordable senior housing communities as a platform for delivering health and support services to vulnerable older adults with low incomes.
Four toolkits are currently featured in the Housing Plus Services Toolkits section of the LTSS Center website.
Housing and Health Care Partnerships, a 13-part toolkit, features guidebooks, videos, and other tools designed to help support the development of partnerships between affordable senior housing and health care providers.
Assessing Resident Needs, a 4-part toolkit, provides a guidebook, 2 assessment instruments, and a tabulation mechanism to help affordable senior housing communities conduct basic assessments of resident needs and interests.
Collaborating with Medical House Call Programs features a guide entitled Doctor at Your Door: The Senior Housing Community’s Guide to Medical House Call Programs. The guide describes how medical house call programs operate and how they can benefit affordable senior housing communities.
Intergenerational Programming Toolkit features Connecting Generations in Senior Housing: A Program Implementation Toolkit. The toolkit presents strategies for planning and implementing high-quality intergenerational programs that will benefit older housing residents and young people living in the surrounding community.