Rural Project Examples: Aging and aging-related services
Other Project Examples
Hospital2Home
Updated/reviewed April 2024
- Need: To prevent hospital readmissions and improve the recovery process for older adults in rural southern Ohio.
- Intervention: Hospital2Home identifies individuals who have an elevated risk of hospital readmission and provides vouchers for services like personal care and home-delivered meals.
- Results: In each of the seven years the program has been in operation, over 85% of participants have avoided readmission in the first two months after hospital discharge.
New Horizons Geriatric Counseling Program
Updated/reviewed June 2022
- Need: Improved behavioral health care offerings for a community after losing 5 senior-aged men to suicide.
- Intervention: A Critical Access Hospital in Yoakum, Texas, created a community-based program focusing on inpatient and outpatient behavioral health care for area residents age 50 and older.
- Results: A financially-sustainable behavioral health care delivery model demonstrating positive impacts on physical health conditions, healthcare service utilization, and high patient satisfaction rates.
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