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A Multi-Sector Pilot Design in the Northeast Ohio QI Hub: Engaging Community Based Organizations to Advance Diabetes Equity [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Results: Key priorities across all sectors included access to behavioral health, economic mobility, social cohesion, and transportation. Conclusions: This approach is a model for implementing cross-sectoral collaboratives to reduce diabetes and other chronic condition disparities through screening and referral for social needs

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

This includes transportation, driver’s license, parks, volunteerism, housing, and of course health and human services. Utilizers costs about $400 billion a year to serve, have two chronic conditions and two limitations in some functional capacity, need help bathing, dressing, personal care, going to the bathroom, that type of thing.