PACE: Enabling Older Adults to Live Independently at Home and in Their Communities

In 1971, On Lok — a family of community-based nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area — piloted a program for Chinese Americans who needed nursing home care but wished to age at home and in community. The program provided medical care, meal delivery, transportation, and group activities, among other aspects of eldercare. Over five decades later, the successful model launched at On Lok (Cantonese for “peaceful, happy abode”) has grown into a national program called the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), with 326 centers in 32 states serving over 70,000 older adults annually.

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation began supporting On Lok in 2018 as part of its longtime commitment to enable older adults to remain at home and lead independent lives for as long as possible. Weinberg’s funding helps On Lok and other PACE programs around the country provide an age-friendly health system for low-income older adults who need the level of care they would get in a nursing home, allowing them to live at home, have their needs met, and enjoy a high quality of life. 

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Source: The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation