Dan Drake, President and CEO of Trinity Health PACE, discussed how a PACE comprehensive community-based approach can allow older adults continue to live at home as long as possible.

Trinity Health PACE, a member of Trinity Health, provides comprehensive medical, health, recreational, and social services to qualified elderly individuals, allowing them to remain at home while receiving essential care.

Dan describes PACE, Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, as inside-out nursing home care, it delivers nursing home-level medical services in PACE participants’ homes or at a PACE center with proven results in reducing admissions to hospital settings.

To enroll, an individual must qualify for nursing home care with low income; he notes that most qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid, with little or no co-pays. Once enrolled PACE operates as both insurer and care provider.  For the protection of the care providers and the resident they perform an in-home review, making sure the home is livable and safe; they will even help with decluttering of a residence.

Once in PACE care they have access to social and recreational opportunities, occupational and physical therapist, dieticians, transportation to medical appointments, as well as a dedicated team for primary care and registered nurse home care.

For more information about PACE programing and find providers in your community visit medicaid.gov

For Trinity Health PACE, serving locally the Philadelphia, South Jersey and Delaware areas, go to TrinityHealthPace.org