News for Community Aging in Place—Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE)

VIDEOS

2019 Heinz Foundation Awardee Video:

2019 Design Thinking for Health:

Penn Nursing Innovators: Sarah Szanton.

In the News

• Joe Biden cites CAPABLE as an innovative caregiving workforce program in speech, blog post, and campaign website. Forbes dives deeper into the CAPABLE cameo and the importance of the occupational therapy component.
• To Help Seniors, Baltimore Program Pairs Medical Care with Home Repair
• Home is Where the Health Is: CAPABLE's Impact on Combating Chronic Conditions
• NPR Story Profiling SCAN Health Plan in California
• Keeping Seniors CAPABLE (Best viewed in Chrome, Firefox, or Edge browsers.)
• Aging-in-Place Program from Johns Hopkins on the Verge of ‘Exponential Growth’
• 3-Minute Case Study: Better Daily Living for Elders
• Rural Health Information hub: CAPABLE (Community Aging in Place – Advancing Better Living for Elders)
• Hillman Foundation Announces 2017 Innovation Grants
• Improving Life for Elders—At Home
• Innovative Model Focused on Function of Older Adults Shows Promise for Improving Lives and Reducing Healthcare Costs: Preliminary Findings from CAPABLE
• Minor Adjustments Keep Seniors at Home Longer
• Our Patients Teach Us
• Faculty from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Offer Expertise in Medicare, Medicaid Initiative
• Proving Capable
• Lipitz Center Blog at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• The Marc Steiner Show Podcast
• Program Hopes to Accommodate "Demographic Tsunami" of Seniors 
• Elders Get a CAPABLE Hand in Shoring Up Home Safety
• Interprofessional Team Helps Older Adults Age in Place Safely
• Nurses, Handymen Make House Calls for Elderly
• Program helps seniors stay in homes longer
• CAPABLE program team helps Baltimore's elderly stay in homes
• The Public Health Crisis that Overwhelms Families: One Family's Caregiving Story
• Fixing Up Seniors' Homes to Help them Age in Place
• RWJF Scholar Pioneers Innovative Program to Help Low-Income Elderly Age at Home

Podcasts

Enabling Older Adults to Be Independent (December 29, 2016)
Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN, discusses how the CAPABLE Project is reducing nursing home and hospital submissions by creating ways for older adults to live more independently in their own homes.

Read the Article

Listen to the MP3 Audio File

CAPABLE: Helping Elders Age In Place
Listen to the Marc Steiner Show Podcast

Aging in Your Community Podcast from Maryland Humanities (August 4, 2016)

Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN, principal investigator for the CAPABLE Project, talks about ways to help older adults maintain a sense of community through straightforward solutions around their health and homes.

Learn More

For more information on the Community Aging in Place—Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) project, contact:

Sarah Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN
Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Sarah.szanton@jhu.edu