More Specific Guidance and Closer Monitoring Needed to Get More from Funds Spent on Social Services for the Elderly: Report

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U.S. General Accounting Office, 1981 - 64 pages

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Page 2 - ... (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 6 - Aging, the National Association of State Units on Aging and the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging on the reauthorization of the Act.
Page 33 - Association, the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, the National Association of Nutrition and Aging Services Programs, the National Association of Meals Programs, Incorporated, and any other appropriate group, shall develop minimum criteria of efficiency and quality for the furnishing of home delivered meal services for projects described in section 336. The criteria required...
Page 21 - III-B social services allotment for the delivery of access services (transportation, outreach, and information and referral), in-home services (homemaker, home health aide, visiting and telephone reassurance, and chore maintenance), and legal services.
Page 32 - This means the performance of household tasks, essential shopping, simple household repairs, and other light work necessary to enable an individual to remain in his own home when...
Page 32 - ... the following services: (i) Periodic screening and evaluation which provide for an assessment of an individual's need for those medical and social services necessary to retain his capacity for self-care and to maintain independent living In his home as long as possible; (ii) Homemaker services which provide care for elderly individuals in their own homes, and help them maintain, strengthen, and safeguard their personal functioning in their own homes through the services of a trained and supervised...
Page 4 - Act; (13) develop and operate programs providing services and opportunities as authorized by this Act which are not otherwise provided by existing programs for older persons; (14) carry on a continuing evaluation of the programs and activities related to the purposes of this Act, with particular attention to the impact of medicare and medicaid, the Age Discrimination...
Page 1 - Congress enacted the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 USC 3001 et seq. ) . The act, designed expressly to address the social services needs of the Nation's elderly population, set forth 10 broad objectives.
Page 9 - It is not intended that the area agencies on aging shall be primary providers of services. In many communities existing organizations may already be engaged in providing services and the entry of the area agencies into the position of providing services is likely to result in duplication and overlap. Their primary concern must be to coordinate existing services and to stimulate the expansion of such services and the introduction of new services by other providers.

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