1. What’s Ahead for the Village Movement? Andrew Scharlach, PhD Center for the Advanced Studies of Aging Services School of Social Welfare University of California, Berkeley April 26, 2011

2. Potential Impacts of the Village Model  Service Access  Unmet needs  Ability to access needed services  Cost of services  Community-Building  Social engagement  Social support  Capacity-Building  Individual functioning Physical and psychosocial well-being Likelihood of relocation  Service delivery system Availability, accessibility, affordability, appropriateness

3. The Importance of Evaluation  Makes it easier for new Villages to replicate the model  Know what services others provide  Find out what works  Setting membership fees  For funding and government grants  Most grants require some previous program evaluation  For public funding  Potential for funding from OAA, Medicaid, CLASS Act, or LTC insurance, if we can show that Village membership improves well-being and/or prevents higher cost care

4. Organizational Issues  Representativeness  Member characteristics vs. target population  Program Implementation  Services offered and used  Cost-Effectiveness  Direct and indirect benefits  Resource mix  ROI  Sustainability  Organizational development  Facilitative organizational characteristics

5. Challenges for the Future Sustainability Inclusiveness Community integration Comprehensiveness Effectiveness

6. UC Berkeley Villages Project  Evaluation of individual Villages  Service use  Member satisfaction  Member outcomes  Cost-effectiveness  National survey of Village organizations Factors associated with sustainability and effectiveness  Longitudinal study of Village members Impact of the Village model

7. Andrew Scharlach, PHD Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services scharlach@berkeley.edu 510 642-3285 Thank You!