Housing & Services Study Grant Received

The LeadingAge Center for Applied Research has received a $698,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to conduct the first national effort to assess whether affordable housing settings can serve as effective platforms for meeting the health and long-term care needs of low-income older residents while helping to reduce care costs.

With the grant, the center will study the role that publicly assisted service-enriched housing for older adults can play in helping residents “age in place.” Coupled with another ongoing center study, the MacArthur grant will help researchers build the first national dataset on the health and functional characteristics of older people living in publicly assisted housing with different levels of service enrichment.