Evaluation Design Plan for The Center for Discovery (TCFD)

Grant Summary

This grant will support NORC, an independent research institution, to design a plan to expand The Center for Discovery’s successful, evidence-based model for people with intellectual disabilities to improve care and outcomes for clinically complex older adults. This model incorporates a person’s medical, educational, nutritional, residential, creative and recreational needs developed by The Center for Discovery (TCFD). NORC will conduct intensive information gathering from TCFD’s stakeholders and help determine pilot eligibility criteria, outreach, enrollment, as well as baseline costs of care, including housing, medical care and care coordination. Building on TCFD’s long history of working with people with intellectual disabilities, TCFD and NORC will highlight health equity to ensure the TCFD pilot reaches a wide range of older adults.

Related Grant Resources

• Report: The Center for Discovery Program Evaluation: How the HealthE6® Model Can Support Healthy Aging
• Press Release: New Report by The John A. Hartford Foundation Shows The Center for Discovery’s Model Could Hold Key to Healthy Aging