Toolkit: State Strategies to Support Older Adults Aging in Place in Rural Areas
The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) has released a toolkit, "State Strategies to Support Older Adults Aging in Place in Rural Areas."
The toolkit highlights state initiatives that help older adults living in rural areas to age in place. It is designed to help state leaders, especially Medicaid officials, adapt and adopt existing strategies and develop new strategies that build on their peers’ experience and insights. The toolkit showcases these three primary types of strategies that states are using to support aging in place:
- Workforce and training;
- Facilitating access to services in rural areas; and
- Addressing the social determinants of health (SDOH)
The toolkit was prepared with support from a National Organizations of State and Local Officials cooperative agreement that NASHP holds with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
To go to the toolkit, click here.