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Community Aging in Place - Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) Program
The CAPABLE program focuses on the intersection between disability and home environment.
Implementation through Medicaid waiver-funded
Procedure:
- entails home visits over 5 months by a team comprising a nurse, an occupational therapist, & a home repair person, each trained to support patient-identified goals
Clinical significance:
- CAPABLE program can reduce disability scores by 30%
- reduction in disabilities, falls, hospitalizations, & long-term care spending
- cost of provision of home modifications & adaptive equipment averaged $1,300 per home; there was no cost to participant
- calculated cost-savings of $867 per month per participant (2021)
General
medical organizational structure
References
- Geriatric Review Syllabus, 11th edition (GRS11)
Harper GM, Lyons WL, Potter JF (eds)
American Geriatrics Society, 2022
- Spoelstra SL, Sikorskii A, Gitlin LN et al.
Dissemination of the CAPABLE model of care in a Medicaid waiver program to
improve physical function.
J Am Geriatr Soc. 2019;67(2):363-370
PMID: 30548594
https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.15713