The Older Americans Act and the Aging Network: The Importance of Home and Community-based Long-term Care : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Aging of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, on Examining Home and Community-based Long-term Care, Focusing on Current Roles and Contributions of the Older Americans Act and State and Local Aging Networks, April 26, 1991, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992 - 159 pages |
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AAA's AAAs activities Administration on Aging adult day advocacy Agencies on Aging aging network Alzheimer's disease appropriate area agencies assessment assistance BROCK ADAMS Capitman CAPM caregivers Chairman client committee community-based long community-based long-term comprehensive congregate CONGRESS THE LIBRARY coordination disabled elders eligibility Federal frail elderly functions Glakas health promotion home and community home and community-based home care services home health home-delivered meals in-home services income infrastructure institutional issues Jay Rockefeller Kane LIBRARY OF CONGRESS living long-term care programs long-term care services long-term care system Medicaid waiver Medicare million NCOA nursing home Older Americans Act older persons ombudsman Pepper Commission percent planning population problems reauthorization recommend require Resource Center respite care responsibility role Senator ADAMS Senator Durenberger Senator Rockefeller senior centers serve service delivery social services supportive services term care system Thank title III-B Washington
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Page 59 - States to foster the development of comprehensive and coordinated service systems to serve older individuals, to "... (1) secure and maintain maximum independence and dignity in a home environment for older individuals capable of self care with appropriate supportive services; (2) remove individual and social barriers to economic and personal independence for older individuals; and (3) provide a continuum of care for the vulnerable elderly.
Page 152 - I hope this information will be helpful to you, and if I can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to call on me.
Page 61 - The overall objective of the Title III program is to strengthen or to develop at the sub-state or area level a system of coordinated and comprehensive services for older persons — services which will enable older persons to live in their own homes or other places of residence as long as possible.
Page 76 - (5) provide staff and other technical assistance to the Federal Council on the Aging. "(b) In administering his functions under this Act, the Commissioner may utilize the services and facilities of any agency of the Federal Government and of any other public or nonprofit agency or organization, in accordance with agreements between the Commissioner and the head thereof, and to pay therefor, in advance or by way of reimbursement, as may be provided in the agreement.
Page 114 - NCOA encompasses nine constituent units and member organizations that provide services to millions of Americans: o The National Association of Older Worker Employment Services...
Page 59 - SEC. 301. It is the purpose of this title to encourage and assist State and local agencies to concentrate resources in order to develop greater capacity and foster the development of comprehensive and coordinated service systems to serve older persons by entering into new cooperative arrangements with each other and with providers of social services for planning for the provision...
Page 59 - COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES. THE TITLE III MANDATE WAS FOR AREA AGENCIES TO "ESTABLISH COMPREHENSIVE. COORDINATED SYSTEMS OF SERVICES FOR THE AGING" WHICH WOULD "ENABLE OLDER PERSONS TO LIVE IN THEIR HOMES OR OTHER PLACES OF RESIDENCE AS LONG AS POSSIBLE".
Page 121 - ... object and indeed I believe every one of America's 18 million persons over age 65 has a right to resent this official action by the Federal Government announcing to the nation that — the independence, dignity and usefulness of our older Americans will hereinafter be regarded as welfare problems. This is contrary to everything that has been researched and recommended to change the image of aging from a sickly, indigent individual to a dignified, responsible person. The welfare setting has wiped...
Page 121 - ... jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Welfare as an Office of Aging. Let me hasten to emphasize that this statement is not a reflection on the Commissioner of Welfare who is regarded as an outstanding administrator and is recognized as an authority in the field of public welfare and relief. I object and indeed I believe every one of America's 18 million persons over age 65 has a right to resent this official action by the Federal Government announcing to the nation that — the independence, dignity...
Page 128 - primarily" so it reads: "The Commissioner shall cany out a program for making grants to States under State plans approved under section 307 for periodic preventive health services to be provided primarily at senior centers or alternative sites as appropriate." FUNDING/TITLE m OF OLDER AMERICANS ACT - In addition to the Health Promotion Initiative, funding for Title in in 1992 should be increased by not less than 10% over current service levels. AGE ELIGIBILITY - No change from current age 60 and...