Better Care Playbook Blog: Supporting Older Adults’ Social Needs Through Partnerships Between Area Agencies on Aging and Health Care Organizations
The Better Care Playbook has released a blog post by guest authors from USAging, which supports Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs), that outlines new findings on strategies that AAAs use to create and maintain partnerships with health care organizations to improve services for older adults.
More than 600 AAAs across the country support older adults to live in the community with dignity and independence by providing services for health-related social needs. In addition, a growing number of AAAs are contracting with health care entities to provide care coordination, nutrition, and other services, and these partnerships can have substantial impacts on health and cost outcomes.
For this blog post, the team conducted 130 in-depth interviews with staff at AAAs and their health care partner organizations. Three common characteristics emerged that describe the organizational culture of AAAs with a high number of health care partners:
- Attention to external environments
- Openness to innovation and change
- Risk-taking to learn, improve, and grow
Read the full blog post.
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