PACE Programs
Posted by Patti on April 18th, 2006 / Print This Post
Ever hear of the PACE program??
HARLTON— A new program in Central Massachusetts is giving area elders an alternative to nursing home care by providing comprehensive services in and out of their homes.The only service of its kind in Central Massachusetts, Fallon Community Health Plan’s Summit ElderCare is a Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly, known as PACE. The program provides comprehensive medical care, prescription drugs, home support services, transportation and adult day care.
The PACE model was developed in San Francisco during the 1970s as an alternative to nursing home care. Its success, and subsequent funding by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, led to its replication.
Here is more about the PACE program; I think more communites should look into these things. Nursing homes are just not where anyone wants to be.
Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) serve seniors with chronic care needs by providing access to the full continuum of preventive, primary, acute, and long term care services. PACE Programs take many familiar elements of our traditional health care system and reorganize them in a way that makes sense to families, health care providers and the government programs and others that pay for care.
Check them out and THINK.