Fact Sheet: The role of medical-legal partnerships for socially vulnerable older adults.
Year Developed: 2020
Resource Type: Fact Sheet.Primary Audience: Clinicians
Enabling Staff
Outreach Staff
PCAs
Secondary Audience: Administrative Staff
Board of Directors
C-Suite (CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, COOs, CMOs, etc)
Language(s): English
Developed by: National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (See other resources developed by this organization).
Resource Summary: This fact sheet looks at how integrating medical and legal services for older health center patients can help mitigate overlapping health and social challenges and begin to comprehensively address problems that directly impact a patient’s health and well-being. It examines how these partnerships work, and highlights two medical-legal partnership programs for seniors in San Francisco and Boston.
Resource Details: Older Americans experience a range of complex and overlapping health and social challenges. These challenges include chronic disease management, functional limitations, emotional and financial abuse, understanding and accessing long-term care options, understanding and navigating insurance plans, social isolation, and barriers to accessing health care. This fact sheet looks at the role of medical-legal partnerships for socially vulnerable older adults.
Resource Topic: , Special and Vulnerable Populations
Resource Subtopic: Enabling Services (ES), Patient-Centered Health Outcomes, Social Determinants of Health (SDOH).
Keywords: Access to Care, Legal Issues, Medical Legal Partnerships (MLPs), Partnerships.This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $6,625,000 with 0 percentage financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.