Affordable Clustered Housing-Care: A Viable Alternative for Long-Term Care in a Residential Setting?

consequent difficulty living independently, living in the community requires not only medical and support services, but also housing. All too often, however, housing sponsors and long-term care providers operate in isolation, leading at best to frustration on the part of individuals, who must piece together workable housing and service arrangements, and at worst to otherwise avoidable institutionalization. In a paper commissioned by the Commonwealth Fund, Stephen Golant, Ph.D., of the University of Florida quotes one of the largest nonprofit service providers, who attests to the obstacles that impede an integrated approach to housing and long-term care: