Types of Elderly Housing
This type of housing provides assistance with daily activities and medical care for the elderly.
What is Assisted Living?
Adult Family Homes cannot take this type of government-funded insurance because it does not cover long term care.
What is Medicare?
This local resource is promoting the social, cultural, spiritual, economic, physical, and mental well-being of citizens in the community with particular attention to the elderly.
What is the Pullman Senior Center?
This federal program provides financial assistance to help low-income seniors pay for housing costs.
What is the Housing Choice Voucher Program or Section 8?
The increase in the proportion of people utilizing "long-term services and supports," funded primarily by Medicaid, is a consequence of the aging of this generation (Xing, 2018).
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Who are the baby boomers or those born between 1946 and 1964?
This housing option is typically for seniors who want to live independently but in a community setting.
What is an independent living community?
Adult Family Homes can take this government-funded insurance if the resident is eligible.
What is Medicaid?
This resource utilizes volunteers to provide hot, nutritious, lunchtime meals to homebound seniors in Pullman.
What is Pullman Meals on Wheels?
This federal program supplies free or reduced-cost health insurance coverage for seniors in Washington.
What is Medicare?
The possible age gap between elderly homeless individuals' life expectancy and non-homeless individuals' life expectancy.
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What is 40 years?
This specialized housing arrangement offers medical care around the clock, often for those with complex health needs.
What is a nursing home?
This facility offers Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care, and Respite Care with "an emphasis on individualized care that enables residents to live as independently as possible."
What is the Regency Pullman?
This state resource, located in Spokane, WA, connects seniors, disabled adults, and caregivers with a network of services for varying needs.
What is the Washington State Area Agency on Aging?
This state-funded program offers in-home care services, such as help with daily activities, to elderly residents.
What is Washington’s Aging and Disability Resources System (ADRS)?
Elderly homelessness in the US will increase by this much over the next ten years (Culhane et al.).
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What is 3x, or triple?
This type of living is often designed for seniors who want support but also want a private space.
What are Residential Care Home or Adult Family Homes?
A private facility in Pullman offering Assisted Living, Independent Living, and Memory Care.
What is Bishop Place Senior Living?
This local panel helps seniors in Pullman identify needs, develop solutions, and connect with resources.
What is the Pullman Community Council on Aging?
Washington State offers this program that helps seniors with home modifications for safety and accessibility.
What is the Aging and Disability Services (ADS) Home Modifications Program?
This "approach to care connects multiple systems—such as primary care, behavioral health, long-term services and supports, and acute care—to achieve a more coordinated and person-centered approach and to improve health outcomes," especially for elderly individuals in rural areas (Kaye, 2021).
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What is Integrated Care?
This community-based housing prioritizes remaining living in “[…] one’s own home and community safely, independently, and comfortably, regardless of age, income, or ability level” and may include home modifications or in-home care services (Choi, 2022).
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What is Aging in Place or AIP?
A HUD Project-based Section 8 housing for seniors 62+ and/or adults with disabilities.
What are the Kenwood Square Apartments?
This service organized by Pullman Community Council on Aging, which "recruits volunteers to match with seniors needing occasional assistance around their home (PCCoA)."
What is Senior Chore Service?
The legislation that created a public long‐term care insurance program, of which Washington was the first state to pass in 2019 (Jinkins, 2020).
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What is the Washington State Long‐Term Care Trust Act?
A trial of a program supported by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development that tests housing-based service coordinator/nurse team model, to help low-income elderly residents "age in place (Stone, 2018)."
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What is the Integrated Wellness in Supportive Housing (IWISH) program?