COVID Data Demonstrate PACE/LIFE Model Is Safer Than Nursing Home Care

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) – also called Living Independence For the Elderly (LIFE), with their focus on keeping participants at home and in the community, are safer than nursing home care. The rate that LIFE/PACE enrollees have contracted the virus or died as a result of it is one-third the rate of nursing home residents, according to the National PACE Association (NPA).