WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: May 2, 2013 Featuring: Sharon King, Principal, Starfield Consulting Ltd. Mimi Toomey, MA, Director of the Office of Policy, Analysis and Development at the Administration for Community Living (ACL),  US Department of Health and Human Services   With the aging of the population in many countries, where are the best ideas going to come from to help older people remain in their communities, and among the friends and families — and other seniors — they know best? How can we shift mindsets and models from ones that include endless and expensive health care interventions to a vision that factors in the role that supportive people and support services can play further upstream — to reduce isolation and loneliness, to ensure good nutrition and management of chronic health issues, to prevent avoidable hospitalizations? This WIHI takes a stab at some answers. In South Georgian Bay, a community along the Severn River in Ontario, six organizations have come together to create a web of resources called Home fo