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Understanding Boston:
Health & Human Services
With its highly-regarded teaching hospitals, network of community-based health care centers and sophisticated research institutions, Greater Boston is a world-class health care hub. But, as with other areas across the country, the growing cost of health care threatens to overshadow all other costs—and an alarming rise in chronic illness is only adding to the crisis. This was the conclusion of a groundbreaking report the Boston Foundation commissioned from the New England Healthcare Insitute. The Foundation also has joined with other funders to evaluate initiatives that are tackling chronic homlessness, issues related to aging and disabilities, as well as other health and human services areas of importance to the people of Greater Boston. Learn about the Boston Foundation’s grantmaking priorities in Health and Human Services.
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The Boston Paradox: Lots of Healthcare, Not Enough Health Despite its status as a world-class healthcare hub with unparalleled assets—universities, teaching hospitals and research facilities routinely hailed as setting a global gold standard—a rising tide of preventable chronic disease threatens not only the physical health of Greater Boston residents but is already beginning to crowd out public and private investment in a wide range of regional priorities — including healthcare itself. That is the news contained in a groundbreaking report released by the Boston Foundation and the New England Healthcare Institute. |  |
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Children and teens in the Massachusetts foster care system are among the most vulnerable residents in our communities, but if they are given the supports they need while in foster care — and while ‘aging out’ of care — they can lead positive, fulfilling lives and become tremendous community assets.
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One of the most prized goals in life is the ability to age with dignity, and one of the indicators of a healthy city is that people of all ages can thrive in it. Many of us may have assumed that Boston was such a place for seniors, and that the needs of most Boston elders were reasonably met by a combination of social programs like Medicare and Social Security. This report debunks that myth, and reveals that Boston elders must have more income or supports to afford the basics of life.
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The Boston Paradox: Lots of Health Care, Not Enough HealthThe report, titled The Boston Paradox, was commissioned by the Foundation and prepared by the New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI). It finds that despite Boston’s status as a world-class health care hub, a rising tide of preventable chronic disease threatens not only the physical health of Greater Boston’s residents but is starting to crowd out investment in a wide range of regional priorities.
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There has been a recent, growing public awareness of the high cost of housing and the way it is affecting Greater Boston’s families,” said Terry Lane, the Boston Foundation’s Vice President for Program. “This report offers an additional lens, by identifying the problems elders face.” With that, she opened an Understanding Boston forum about “On the Edge: Facing a Challenging and Uncertain Future,” a report which presents the findings of the Elder Economic Security Standard Project developed by the Gerontology Institute at University of Massachusetts Boston.
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