Reauthorization Issues for the Older Americans Act: Joint Hearing Before the Select Committee on Aging and the Subcommittee on Human Services of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, February 21, 1984U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 - 306 pages |
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AARP activities Administration on Aging agen Agency on Aging aging network aging programs ALBOSTA Alzheimer's disease amendments appropriate area agencies assistance BIAGGI block grant budget Chairman clients Commissioner Committee on Aging community service Congress coordination County Department director efforts elderly employment established Federal fiscal frozen meals funds gerontology goals grams Hispanics home-delivered meals housing Human Services increase legal services long term long term care Medicaid ment million multipurpose senior centers NASUA National nursing home nutrition programs nutrition services Office on Aging Older Americans Act older individuals older persons ombudsman organizations Pacific/Asian participation percent Planning and Service population priority projects proposed reauthorization recommendations requirements responsibility role rural senior citizens serve Service Area service delivery service providers services for older social services staff statement supportive services target Thank tion Title TOLLIVER
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Page 23 - ... (1) secure and maintain maximum independence and dignity in a home environment for older persons capable of self-care with appropriate supportive services; and "(2) remove individual and social barriers to economic and personal independence for older persons. "DEFINITIONS "SEC. 302. For purposes of this title — "(1) The term 'social services...
Page 106 - Full restorative services for those who require institutional care, and a comprehensive array of community-based, long-term care services adequate to appropriately sustain older people in their communities and in their homes, including support to family members and other persons providing voluntary care to older individuals needing long-term care services.
Page 158 - ... provide for the initiation, expansion, or improvement of social services in the planning and service area covered by the area plan; "(3) provide for the establishment or maintenance of information and referral sources in sufficient numbers to assure that all older persons within the planning and service area covered by the plan will have reasonably convenient access to such sources. For...
Page 140 - Secretary is authorized to enter into agreements with public or private nonprofit agencies or organizations, including national organizations, agencies of a State government or a political subdivision of a State (having elected or duly appointed governing officials) , or a combination of such political subdivisions, or tribal organizations in order to further the purposes and goals of the program.
Page 151 - multipurpose senior center' means a community facility for the organization and provision of a broad spectrum of services (including provision of health, social, and educational services and provision of facilities for recreational activities) for older persons.
Page 9 - ... persons, and the means by which these needs may be met through information centers, through the libraries of elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education, and through public, research, special, and other types of libraries...
Page 137 - ... may elect to provide, each of which assures a minimum of one-third of the daily recommended dietary allowances as established by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council...
Page 158 - SERVICES, home health services, homemaker services, shopping services, escort services, reader services, letter writing services, and other similar services designed to assist such individuals to continue living independently in a home environment;" Most non-profit agencies serving older persons consider advocacy on behalf of their clientele as important as service delivery.
Page 157 - No supportive services, including services, will be directly provided by the State Agency or an Area Agency on Aging, except where, in the judgment of the State Agency, provision of such services by the State Agency or an Area Agency on Aging is necessary to assure an adequate supply of such services...
Page 278 - ... (1) provide for the establishment of a comprehensive and coordinated system for the delivery of social services within the planning and service area covered by the plan, including determining the need for social services in such area (taking into consideration, among other things, the...