Federal Housing Commission Recommends Delivering Services Through Senior Housing

Dramatic demographic changes from the country’s burgeoning senior population create a huge need for senior housing policy action, according to an Economic Policy Program report released by the Housing Commission.

Key recommendations within the newly released report:

1. Locating housing with or near service providers can yield significant savings and efficiencies, the report says, by allowing adults to age in place and avoid or delay the need to move into a more expensive institutional long-term care setting;
2. Delivering “modest interventions and services” through senior housing can have added benefits of reducing emergency room visits and the severity of illnesses, says the Bipartisan Policy Center, which translates to lower senior care costs;
3. Better coordination of housing and healthcare.