Respite Care in New Jersey: Hearing Before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, Lakewood, New Jersey, April 16, 1990, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - 54 pages |
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Page 22 - highest degree possible. Day care is a structured program of coordinated social and health-related services in a protective setting during any part of a day but less than 24 hour care. Providing direct care and supervision, this program addresses individual client needs and is oriented towards prevention, maintenance and/or rehabilitation of persons who, due to physical, social, and/or mental impairment, require
Page 42 - step in the right direction. Prescription drug prices continue to increase. Between 1980 and 1989, prescription drug prices rose by 128 percent, compared with an increase in the overall Consumer Price Index (CPI) of just over 50 percent. In 1989 alone, when the overall rate of inflation was 4.8 percent, average prescription drug prices rose by 8.7 percent.
Page 22 - institutionalization. Individuals who participate in adult day care attend on a planned basis during specified hours. Adult day care assists it participants to remain in the community, enabling families and other caregivers to continue caring for an impaired member at
Page 22 - participants to remain in the community, enabling families and other caregivers to continue caring for an impaired member at home. The National Institute on Adult Day Care presents the following goals for day care centers: - Promote the individual's
Page 34 - gaps in Medicare's protection. Beneficiaries are faced with higher deductibles and coinsurance for services covered by Medicare, as well as increased costs for necessary services not currently covered by the program. In many cases these escalating costs have created insurmountable financial barriers to essential medical services.
Page 34 - how increasing health care costs have widened the gaps in Medicare's protection of older beneficiaries. When it was created in 1965, Medicare dramatically increased access to acute health care services and reduced out-of-pocket medical expenses for most elderly people. But over the years,
Page 25 - Council, which accredits us, a homemaker/home health aide is a paraprofessional who has successfully completed a State-approved training course, is certified by the State of New Jersey, and works as part of a home care team under the supervision of a registered nurse or social worker.
Page 38 - expenses for most elderly people. But over the years, the gaps in Medicare's protection have gradually widened. It is now estimated that older Americans spend about 15% of their yearly income on health care - roughly the
Page 28 - basically lived and functioned independently or we became ill or injured and died. And If we did find ourselves briefly in the middle of that spectrum, our families took care of us or
Page 28 - prescribed by a therapist, getting in and out of bed or a wheelchair, using a walker, planning and preparing meals, following a special diet,