Socially Vulnerable Older Adults and Medical-Legal Partnership

Report / Fact Sheet
Written By NCMLP

Description

As the American population continues to age, healthcare, social service, community, and family resources should be deployed with person-centered goals that maximize older adults’ independence and control over their priorities. This issue brief describes the pressing legal needs facing older adults and ways that coordinating healthcare, legal, and social services can improve their care and well-being. The report details three medical-legal partnership programs serving older adults and their impact on preventing homelessness, improving financial stability, and more.

 

Download the Resource

Download the Issue Brief (PDF)
 

Author

  • Elizabeth Tobin Tyler, JD, MA, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Health Services, Policy and Practice, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University & Brown University School of Public Health

This issue brief was published by the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership.

 

Acknowledgment

This issue brief is possible thanks to generous support from The Kresge Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

NCMLP

ncmlp@gwu.edu

Previous

A System-Level Approach to Addressing Health-Harming Legal and Social Needs

Next

Complex Care Health Settings and Medical-Legal Partnerships