Please join us for the upcoming Lunch Time Research Seminar featuring Dr. Sarah Szanton DATE: April 4, 2019 TIME: 12:15 -1:45 PM ROOM: 3E34B of SSW Bldg. 525 W. Redwood Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 **Pizza and refreshments will be provided** please RSVP by 4/1/ 2019 to tbrown@ssw.umaryland.edu Presentation Title: Learning from the people we work with: from clinical insight to multi-state policy Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN Health Equity and Social Justice Endowed Professor Director, Center on Innovative Care in Aging Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Joint Appointment with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Abstract: A number of years ago, while making house calls as a nurse practitioner to homebound, low-income elderly patients in West Baltimore, Sarah Szanton noticed that their environmental challenges were often as pressing as their health challenges. Based on these experiences, together with colleagues, she has developed a program called CAPABLE, which combines handyman services with nursing and occupational therapy to improve mobility, reduce disability, and decrease healthcare costs. The program started in Baltimore but is now in 27 places in 12 States and adopted by multiple forms of payors. Szanton will discuss this path, the research evidence behind it, lessons learned and next steps.