Government and Community Affairs

The Community Aging in Place—Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) pilot is a client-centered home-based intervention to increase mobility, function­ality, and capacity to “age in place” for low-income older adults. CAPABLE is comprised of an occupational therapist intervention, a client-centered nurse intervention and safety and access handyman services. Each service synergistically builds on the others by increasing the participants’ bio-psycho-functional capacity to function at home. This is theorized to avert costly health utilization by increas­ing medication management, problem solving ability, strength, balance, nutrition, and home safety, while decreasing isolation, depression, and fall risk. The goal of the pilot is to assess feasibility, titrate intervention dose, and understand tri-service coordination.

Category:	Health Services
Support:	Fully Supported
Location:	Johns Hopkins East Baltimore Based
Street Address:	na
Website:	http://nursing.jhu.edu/faculty_research/research/projects/capable/
Contact:	Sarah Szanton
Email:	sarah.szanton@jhu.edu
Phone:	(410) 288-8124
Internal Department:	Johns Hopkins Home Care Group
Email:
Phone:	(410) 288-8100
Keywords:	home-based care elderly seniors