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

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.

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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.

In the News

• 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

Learn More

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

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