The Vulnerable Populations portfolio creates new opportunities for better health by investing in health where it starts -- in our homes, schools and jobs.
At-Risk/Vulnerable People
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Service Credit Banking
January 1, 2002 | Book
Susan Dentzer explores whether service credit banking--as demonstrated in the projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation--was a good idea that was badly timed or implemented, or whether it was simply a flawed idea.
Second Time Around
August 1, 2000 | Program Result
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children enabled Grandparents As Second Parents to test and to disseminate for national use a peer support program it had developed for grandparents raising their grandchildren.
A System for Spotting and Treating High-Risk Elderly Patients
December 1, 2003 | Program Result
The Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center refined and evaluated the Community Resource Connection, an administrative system that identified health care needs among elderly patients and linked them to appropriate services.
Combating Isolation and Loneliness with an Online Personal Network Called Tyze
September 1, 2011 | Program Result
To combat isolation and loneliness among vulnerable individuals, including the disabled and frail elderly, the PLAN Institute for Caring Citizenship and Tyze Personal Networks promoted Web-based social support networks called Tyze.
State Solutions: An Initiative to Improve Enrollment in Medicare Savings Programs
National Program
Program to maximize enrollment in Medicaid, Qualified Medicare Beneficiary, Selected Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary, and Qualified Individual programs.
Community Partnerships for Older Adults
National Program
To foster the efforts of local public-private partnerships to improve long-term care and supportive services systems for older adults.
Coming Home: Affordable Assisted Living
National Program
Program to provide grant support, technical assistance, and loan funds to states to create affordable models of assisted living targeted to low-income seniors and linked with existing community health care systems.
Coming Home: Affordable Assisted Living
February 25, 2013 | Program Result
Coming Home: Affordable Assisted Living is a national program to develop affordable models of assisted living, with a focus on smaller and rural communities and low-income seniors.
Stand By Me
January 1, 2001 | Program Result
Sage Services of Connecticut recruited and trained volunteers to serve as "conservators of the person" and as court visitors, who assist conservators, for elderly people living in four metropolitan areas in Connecticut.
Supportive Housing
January 1, 2007 | Book
In this chapter of the Anthology, the Foundation's investments in housing is discussed, from its early efforts to provide health care services to homeless people, to its current support of the Corporation for Supportive Housing.