Building Healthy Communities: Community Health Worker Impact on Older Adults in Texas

Evaluation shares health, social, emotional, and financial outcomes resulting from community health worker programs for older adults in Texas.

Brief/Report

August 2024

Integrated Hepatitis C-Opioid Use Disorder Care Through Facilitated Referral

Facilitated telemedicine for hepatitis C among opioid use disorder patients in opioid treatment programs resulted in substantially higher cure rates than standard-of-care off-site referrals.

Peer-Reviewed Article

April 2024

Engaging Community Members: A Guide to Equitable Compensation

Toolkit offers health care stakeholders interested in working with community members guidance on equitable compensation strategies.

Brief/Report

October 2023

Clinicians and Promotores Teaming to Provide In-Home Primary Care to Frail Older Adults

Pairing promotores with clinicians increased in-home visits and reduced acute care use and health care costs for homebound older adults.

Case Example

July 2023

Practice Guide: Integrated Behavioral Health Care for Older Adults

Actionable and evidence-based guidance for integrating behavioral health care into primary care for older adults.

Implementation Tool

June 2023

A Motivational Interviewing Intervention to Improve Adherence to ACEIs/ARBs Among Nonadherent Older Adults with Comorbid Hypertension and Diabetes

Pharmacist-led telephonic motivational interviewing intervention increased medication adherence among an older adult population with chronic disease.

Peer-Reviewed Article

February 2023

Involving People with Lived Experience in Complex Care Research

The Playbook spoke to two individuals who helped develop the Patient-Centered Complex Care Research Agenda to learn more about how involving people with lived experience in research can help strengthen the complex care evidence base.

Blog

January 2023

A Health Equity-Oriented Research Agenda Requires Comprehensive Community Engagement

Describes how community-based participatory action research, especially in peer-based mental health settings, can advance community empowerment and health equity.

Case Example

December 2022

A Patient-Centered Complex Care Research Agenda

Recommendations for building a stronger, more coordinated, and patient-centered complex care evidence base.

Brief/Report

September 2022

Street Medicine and Outreach: Bringing Care to People Where They Are

Report explores the definition and components of street medicine and outreach, as well as provides best practices for delivering this type of care.

Brief/Report

June 2022

Designing an Interprofessional Dementia Specialty Clinic: Conceptualization and Evaluation of a Patient-Centered Model

A collaborative interprofessional dementia care program significantly improved the timeliness of diagnosis compared to traditional clinics and achieved high satisfaction rates among staff, patients, and caregivers.

Peer-Reviewed Article

April 2022

Diabetes Management Among Underserved Older Adults Through Telemedicine and Community Health Workers

Research review finds that incorporating community health workers into primary care reduced A1c levels and improved self-management and satisfaction among older adults with diabetes.

Peer-Reviewed Article

January 2022

Early Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Experience With the Use of Telehealth to Address Disparities: Scoping Review

Telehealth interventions that incorporate patient-centered design and culturally tailored solutions are key to improving outcomes impacted by health disparities, a scoping review finds.

Peer-Reviewed Article

December 2021

Incorporating What Matters Most to Patients into Care Delivery

Details NCQA's person-driven outcome measures and how they can be used to improve care for people with complex health and social needs.

Blog

October 2021

Evidence for the 4Ms: Interactions and Outcomes Across the Care Continuum

The 4Ms approach developed for the Age-Friendly Health System model — what matters, medication, mentation, mobility — has a robust evidence base for providing quality care to older adults.

Peer-Reviewed Article

February 2021

Care Ecosystem Toolkit

Details implementation guidance for the evidence-based Care Ecosystem model, which improves supports for people with dementia and their caregivers.

Implementation Tool

February 2018

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Building Healthy Communities: Community Health Worker Impact on Older Adults in Texas

Integrated Hepatitis C-Opioid Use Disorder Care Through Facilitated Referral

Engaging Community Members: A Guide to Equitable Compensation

Clinicians and Promotores Teaming to Provide In-Home Primary Care to Frail Older Adults

Practice Guide: Integrated Behavioral Health Care for Older Adults

A Motivational Interviewing Intervention to Improve Adherence to ACEIs/ARBs Among Nonadherent Older Adults with Comorbid Hypertension and Diabetes

Involving People with Lived Experience in Complex Care Research

A Health Equity-Oriented Research Agenda Requires Comprehensive Community Engagement

A Patient-Centered Complex Care Research Agenda

Street Medicine and Outreach: Bringing Care to People Where They Are

Designing an Interprofessional Dementia Specialty Clinic: Conceptualization and Evaluation of a Patient-Centered Model

Diabetes Management Among Underserved Older Adults Through Telemedicine and Community Health Workers

Early Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Experience With the Use of Telehealth to Address Disparities: Scoping Review

Incorporating What Matters Most to Patients into Care Delivery

Evidence for the 4Ms: Interactions and Outcomes Across the Care Continuum

Care Ecosystem Toolkit