Aging in Place: Publications
New Directions
New directions. Innovation. Fundamental change. Those imperatives are an essential part of the Fund's work, as highlighted in the 2011 annual report.
Blueprint, Summer 2011
Among the highlights of the summer 2011 issue of Blueprint is a cover story about an initiative that is bringing health care providers and family caregivers together to coordinate and improve patient transitions.
Identifying Risks to Healthy Aging in New York City's Varied NORCs
The Health Indicators in NORC Programs Initiative is a data-driven risk-identification tool and quality-improvement process designed to help community-based programs with limited resources identify key health risks among older adults in their communities, develop targeted and systematic responses, and measure those responses’ effectiveness. This article, a version of which was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Housing for the Elderly, presents findings from three NORC programs to illustrate the importance of understanding each community’s risks to healthy aging in developing effective targeted responses.
Rethink/Renew/Reshape/Reform
In this time of unprecedented urgency and opportunity, the Fund's 2010 annual report focuses on the clear links between our unique approach to shaping improved health care, our accomplishments of the past year, and the challenging road immediately ahead.
Health Indicators: A Proactive and Systematic Approach to Healthy Aging
This article describes a data-driven, community-based, collaborative effort under way in 34 low- and moderate-income communities in New York City. The Health Indicators in NORC (naturally occurring retirement community) Programs Initiative, started in 2007 with major support from the New York City Department for the Aging, has enabled community-based programs with limited resources to become more systematic in addressing the management of clients with diabetes, heart disease, or an increased risk for falls. Published in Cityscape (Volume 12, Number 2), a journal of the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.
Blueprint, Fall 2009
The latest issue of Blueprint presents an overview of the critical issue of expanding insurance coverage, commentary by Jim Tallon on the crisis in health care, and a host of features on Fund initiatives and events.
Vision/Accomplishment
The United Hospital Fund's 2009 annual report highlights the Fund's accomplishments over the past year and presents a vision—and imperatives—for the future of our health care system.
Blueprint, Winter 2008
The latest issue of the Fund's newsletter spotlights the Fund/GNYHA's groundbreaking, multi-year, multi-hospital quality and safety initiative, an innovative program helping teens and young adults get fit, a report on the diverse challenges facing New York's nursing homes, and more.
Blueprint, Fall 2007
In this issue: Fund Partnership Keeps NY at Front of Healthy Aging Effort; From Confusion to Confidence: Health Literacy; Access to Care for the City's Most Vulnerable.
The Health Care Reform Imperative
The budget process forces a focus on fundamental issues, and offers a chance for decisions critical to real health care reform, says Fund President Jim Tallon, in his latest Blueprint editorial.
Blueprint, Fall-Winter 2006
In this issue: Health Care Linkages helps seniors manage their diabetes, plus a host of other Fund news and commentary.
Blueprint, Summer 2006
In this issue: Strategic Health Initiatives, an ambitious Fund agenda for change, plus news on Fund projects on quality improvement, expanding insurance coverage, and more.
Testimony by Fredda Vladeck
Subcommittee on Retirement, Security, and Aging/
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee/
United States Senate
May 16, 2006
On May 16, 2006, Fredda Vladeck, director of the Fund's Aging in Place Initiative, testified before the Subcommittee on Retirement, Security, and Aging of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee of the United States Senate. Her testimony is available.
A Good Place to Grow Old
This report, from the Fund's Aging in Place Initiative, describes a new model of care for the elderly: supportive service programs based in naturally occurring retirement communities. Exploring the programs, funding, and underlying partnerships of New York's NORC-SSPs, as they're called, the report also discusses the model's applicability to other communities throughout the country. Read press release.
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