Program of all-inclusive care (PACE): past, present, and future.

PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly): innovative care for the frail elderly. Comprehensive services enable most participants to remain at home.

PACE--the Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly--provides integrated comprehensive healthcare services to the frail elderly on a capitated basis. Begun in the early 1970s in San Francisco's Chinatown, PACE today comprises many individual programs across the nation. PACE's goal is to provide participants with the healthcare services they need for the highest possible level of functioning...

A Focus on the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).

For over four decades, the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) has been operated by nonprofit organizations. Research has demonstrated that nonprofit PACE provides quality, cost-effective community-based care to older adults who would otherwise require a nursing home level of care. Recently, the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has authorized for-pr...

Evaluation of the Program of All- Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) Demonstration The Impact of PACE on Participant Outcomes FINAL

A Case Exemplar for National Policy Leadership: Expanding Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).

In November 2015, President Obama signed the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) Innovation Act, which expands a proven model of care to serve high-cost and high-need populations. Specifically, the law provides the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services with the authority to waive Medicaid requirements that could not be waived without additional statutory authority. Those req...

PACE and its future in the new landscape.

he roots of PACE (the Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly) stretch back several decades. In the early 1970s, clinicians and administrators at On Lok, a community organization deeply rooted in San Francisco’s ChineseAmerican community, recognized the limitations of a system of senior care built around Medicare’s and Medicaid’s traditional approach of reimbursing providers for an approv...