Creating an aging-prepared community in the inner city: an early descriptive evaluation.

As the population ages, and healthcare costs continue to rise, innovative models to address these twin issues of cost-effective elder care continue to evolve. Looking to the community as the context for care requires new ways of thinking about how to develop and evaluate services. This paper describes the Neighborhood Health Advocate Program (NHAP), an innovative approach to supporting inner-city minority older adults to live in their homes, as well as testing a model for program evaluation based on an action research approach.