Affordable Housing Plus Services

From: HUD USER News
 
The desire of many seniors to "age in place" is
generating new models for delivering health-related and
supportive services that are both attractive and
affordable to low- and modest-income older adults. One
such strategy is Affordable Housing Plus Services
(AHPS), which links older residents living in subsidized
multifamily housing units to health and supportive
services that accommodate aging in place. In support of
these efforts, the U.S. Departments of Health and Human
Services and Housing and Urban Development, in
cooperation with the A. M. McGregor Home in Cleveland,
Ohio, funded the Institute for the Future of Aging
Services (IFAS) to examine the potential of AHPS
strategies for meeting the long-term care needs of low-
and moderate-income seniors.
 
The study conducted by IFAS reviewed the literature on
integrating affordable housing with health and
supportive services for older adults, developed an
inventory of promising AHPS strategies and programs, and
brought together several hundred stakeholders from the
fields of affordable housing and aging services who took
part in workshops convened in four regions of the
country. IFAS found a wide variety of AHPS programs in
operation, typically initiated and administered by
individual housing providers.
 
The resulting report from the study, A Synthesis of
Findings from the Study of Affordable Housing Plus
Services for Low- and Modest- Income Older Adults can
be downloaded for free
at www.huduser.gov/portal/publications/affhsg/synthesis.html.
The supplemental documents, Inventory of Affordable Housing
 Plus Services Initiatives for Low- and Modest-Income
 Seniors and Lessons from the Workshops on Affordable
 Housing Plus Services Strategies for Low- and Modest-
Income Seniors, are also available as downloads from HUD
USER.
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