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What’s Ahead for the Village Movement? Andrew Scharlach, PhD Center for the Advanced Studies of Aging Services School of Social Welfare University of California, Berkeley April 26, 2011 Potential Impacts of the Village Model Service Access Community-Building Unmet needs Ability to access needed services Cost of services Social engagement Social support Capacity-Building Individual functioning Physical and psychosocial well-being Likelihood of relocation Service delivery system Availability, accessibility, affordability, appropriateness The Importance of Evaluation Makes it easier for new Villages to replicate the model For funding and government grants Know what services others provide Find out what works Setting membership fees Most grants require some previous program evaluation For public funding Potential for funding from OAA, Medicaid, CLASS Act, or LTC insurance, if we can show that Village membership improves well-being and/or prevents higher cost care Organizational Issues Representativeness Program Implementation Services offered and used Cost-Effectiveness Member characteristics vs. target population Direct and indirect benefits Resource mix ROI Sustainability Organizational development Facilitative organizational characteristics Challenges for the Future Sustainability Inclusiveness Community integration Comprehensiveness Effectiveness UC Berkeley Villages Project Evaluation of individual Villages National survey of Village organizations Service use Member satisfaction Member outcomes Cost-effectiveness Factors associated with sustainability and effectiveness Longitudinal study of Village members Impact of the Village model Thank You! Andrew Scharlach, PHD Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services [email protected] 510 642-3285