INTERDISCIPLINARY CARE IN LOW-INCOME SENIOR HOUSING COMMUNITIES: SUPPORTING “AGING IN PLACE”

Moderator: Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP

This symposium will review approaches to engage residents in federally subsidized low-income housing communities, the number of residents seen and services provided, and ways to sustain these programs over time. Learning Objectives: (1) state three important steps successfully engaging a senior housing community and the residents, who are all experiencing health disparities due to being mainly minorities and living on low incomes, to participate in a senior wellness clinic; (2) describe appropriate services to provide in a low-income senior housing wellness clinics that are relevant for low-income residents, the majority of whom are minorities and experience health disparities; (3) review three challenges to the development and maintenance of senior housing wellness clinics in low-income housing; and (4) describe how to sustain senior housing wellness clinics over time in real world settings both for those in an academic practice environment as well as a private practice.