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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... requiring that each client be deemed eligible for nursing home admission by the Michigan Department of Public Health . We felt that this would give us a better handle to ascertain any impact on nursing home occupancy . From both our ...
... requiring that each client be deemed eligible for nursing home admission by the Michigan Department of Public Health . We felt that this would give us a better handle to ascertain any impact on nursing home occupancy . From both our ...
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... requires special inter- personal and technical skills , and yet , nursing home , home care and day care workers receive less adequate benefits than any other job category . The Administration on Aging and the aging network should be ...
... requires special inter- personal and technical skills , and yet , nursing home , home care and day care workers receive less adequate benefits than any other job category . The Administration on Aging and the aging network should be ...
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... require means test- ing , and the fact that it provides flexibility to the States to allocate the moneys as they see the needs . Thank you , Mr. Chairman . [ The prepared statement of Ms. Jones appears in the appendix . ] Senator ADAMS ...
... require means test- ing , and the fact that it provides flexibility to the States to allocate the moneys as they see the needs . Thank you , Mr. Chairman . [ The prepared statement of Ms. Jones appears in the appendix . ] Senator ADAMS ...
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... require contributions from taxpayers of all ages . Effective quality assurance mechanisms must be included . THE AGING NETWORK ROLE IN LONG - TERM CARE REFORM The Older Americans Act , notwithstanding its limited budget , has been ...
... require contributions from taxpayers of all ages . Effective quality assurance mechanisms must be included . THE AGING NETWORK ROLE IN LONG - TERM CARE REFORM The Older Americans Act , notwithstanding its limited budget , has been ...
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... to pass the Eagleton amendments requiring AAAs to spend at least 50 % of Title IIIB funds on three priority services : in - home services , access services , and legal services . The message was clear , and soon AAAs all over 62.
... to pass the Eagleton amendments requiring AAAs to spend at least 50 % of Title IIIB funds on three priority services : in - home services , access services , and legal services . The message was clear , and soon AAAs all over 62.
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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 59 - ... manner in which Title III of the amendments is implemented. 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. — from "Grants for State and Community Programs on Aging.
Page 143 - Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the Department of Health and Human Services are providing funding for this initiative in 2002.
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 131 - Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) , US Department of Health and Human Services, are certified as well.
Page 119 - ... 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 25 - Senator ADAMS. Without objection, your entire statement will appear in the record as though given.
Page 76 - Act; and (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 is authorized to pay therefor, in advance or by way of reimbursement, as may be provided in the agreement.
Page 124 - ... (B) furnish appropriate technical assistance to providers of supportive services, nutrition services, or multipurpose senior centers in the planning and service area covered by the area plan; (C) take into account in connection with matters of general policy arising in the development and administration of the area plan, the views of recipients of services under such plan; (D) serve as the advocate and focal point for the elderly within the community by monitoring, evaluating, and commenting...
Page 130 - ... For similar reasons, Medicare pays for only limited amounts of community-based long-term care services, primarily through the program's home health benefit. To qualify for home health services, the person must be in need of skilled nursing care on an intermittent basis, or physical or speech therapy. Most chronically impaired persons do not need skilled care to remain in their homes, but rather nonmedical supportive care and assistance with basic self-care functions and daily routines that do...