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Feds Spending $15 Million to Help Elderly Find
Long-Term Care
Aug. 18, 2005 Two divisions of Health and Humans
Services have joined forces to award $15 million in grants to 19 states
to create a single source of information and assistance for families
navigating the often confusing array of long-term care services
available in their communities.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Administrator Mark B. McClellan, M.D., Ph.D., and Administration on
Aging Administrator Josefina Carbonell made the announcement today.
The Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC)
grants are part of the New Freedom Initiative, an administration effort
to help overcome barriers to community living for the elderly and
disabled. The ADRC grants are jointly administered by CMS and HHS
Administration on Aging.
Resource centers are a tremendous help to families
who need to find effective long-term care for a loved one, often with
little time to prepare, said Dr. McClellan. These grants will help
these states integrate their varied long-term support programs into a
single, coordinated system that will make it easier for families to get
the most effective care for their loved ones, usually right in their own
communities.
Currently, a broad range of programs and services
ranging from home-and-community based care to institutional support are
available to assist older adults and individuals with disabilities.
These services are sponsored and supported by numerous agencies and have
diverse and sometimes complex eligibility requirements. Individuals and
their families who are seeking support services often have difficultly
sorting through or even locating community-based services. The result
may be unnecessary and costly institutionalization.
The ADRC grants are designed to give states
flexibility in the development and administration of their programs.
Some states may utilize a single agency as the entry point to long-term
support while other states will establish centers with multiple sites
that may work together to ensure uniform access to long-term care
support options.
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Aging and Disability Resource Center grants offer states the
opportunity to create one stop entry points to long-term support
services, said Administrator Carbonell. These centers can serve as
visible and trusted places for information on long-term care options, to
help seniors and people with disabilities get long-term care where they
want it. Our goal is to make ADRCs the foundation for community-based
care.
States and territories receiving the grants
referenced in todays announcement are: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado,
District of Columbia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan,
Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia,
Washington and Wyoming. All together, 43 states have received the
three-year grants with awards of up to $800,000.
For more information on the Aging and Disability
Resource Centers Grant program, go to the AoA web site at
http://www.aoa.gov, the CMS web site at
www.cms.hhs.gov/newfreedom/default.asp or the Aging and Disability
Resource Center Technical Assistance Exchange at
www.adrc-tae.org.
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Aging and Disability Resource Center Grant Program
Fiscal Year
2005Awards |
|
State
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Agency
|
Total Award
|
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Alabama
|
Alabama Department
of Senior Services |
$800,000 |
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Arizona |
Arizona Department
of Economic Security |
$750,000 |
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Colorado |
Colorado
Department of Human Services |
$800,000 |
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District of
Columbia |
DC Department of
Health, Medical Assistance Administration |
$629,507 |
|
Guam |
Guam Department of
Integrated Services for Individuals with Disabilities |
$800,000 |
|
Hawaii |
Hawaii State
Executive Office on Aging |
$800,000 |
|
Idaho |
Idaho Department
of Health & Welfare, Division of Medicaid |
$800,000 |
|
Kansas
|
Kansas Department
on Aging |
$800,000 |
|
Kentucky |
Kentucky Cabinet
for Health & Family Services |
$800,000 |
|
Michigan |
Michigan
Department of Community Health |
$800,000 |
|
Mississippi |
Mississippi
Department of Human Services, Division of Aging |
$750,000 |
|
Nevada |
Nevada State
Department of Health and Human Services |
$750,000 |
|
Ohio |
Ohio Department on
Aging |
$800,000 |
|
Tennessee |
Tennessee
Commission on Aging & Disability |
$800,000 |
|
Texas |
Texas Department
of Aging & Disability Services |
$800,000 |
|
Vermont |
Vermont Department
of Disabilities, Aging & Independent Living |
$800,000 |
|
Virginia |
Virginia
Department for the Aging |
$756,670 |
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Washington |
Washington
Department of Social & Health Services, Aging and Disability |
$800,000 |
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Wyoming |
University of
Wyoming Institute for Disabilities Services |
$800,000 |
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TOTAL
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$14,836,177 |
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