Season 54 Episode 2136

How To Prevent and End Homelessness Among Older Adults | Senior Homelessness

To learn about how to prevent and end homelessness among older adults, you must visit: http://cooleyfoundation.org The video covers the following subjects: - How to prevent and end homelessness among older adults - Prevent and end homelessness among older adult - Senior homelessness - Homelessness among older adult Paul Downey is the President and CEO of Serving Seniors in San Diego. Since being appointed to the role in 1995, Downey has guided the agency’s innovative efforts to provide supportive services focused on keeping low-income seniors healthy and independent. Under Downey’s leadership, Serving Seniors has grown to serve 1.5 million nutritious congregate and home delivered meals annually, 365 days per year, at sites throughout San Diego County. The agency’s service provision model – including case management, healthcare, mental healthcare, dental (through a collaborative partner), activities, and civic engagement -- is a national model for seniors living in poverty. Serving Seniors has provided transitional housing and wraparound case management for unsheltered older adults for more than 20 years and owns/operates 412 units of affordable senior housing with support services. The agency will open a new 117-unit affordable senior residence this summer and break ground in early 2023 on a 174-unit complex that will include a full-service senior center. Downey currently co-chairs the County of San Diego’s Elder Protection Council; serves on the Continuum of Care Board for the Regional Task Force on the Homelessness (and chairs are Aging and Homelessness Committee), and previously served as the chair of the California Commission on Aging; chair of the National Association of Nutrition and Aging Services Programs; chair of the Dean’s Advisory Board, SDSU College of Health and Human Services; board member for the American Society on Aging; among many other roles. As a result of these efforts, Downey was invited by President Obama to participate in the White House Conference on Aging in 2015. Downey holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from San Diego State University and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Harvard Business School. Website https://servingseniors.org/ So you would like to know more about how to prevent and end homelessness among older adults. Here is the video I created around this topic. -------------- Follow our video clips concerning how to prevent and end homelessness among older adults. You can also find various similar topics. Please check them out: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjZp... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/itsyo... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.c.cooley/... Twitter: https://twitter.com/JCCooley9 --------------------------- Have I responded to your concerns about how to prevent and end homelessness among older adults? Please like the video or comment to help others and your friends look at how to prevent and end homelessness among older adults:)