Maximizing Supportive Services for the Elderly in Assisted Housing: Experiences from the Congregate Housing Services Program : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Housing and Consumer Interests of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, October 2, 1985

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Page 1 - Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Don Bonker (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Mr. BONKER. The Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade will come to order.
Page 1 - US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING, SUBCOMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND CONSUMER INTERESTS, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice at 9:07 am, in room 2358, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon.
Page 77 - ... care. He or she receives 100-150 square feet of semiprivate space around a bed in a nursing institution compared to 400-500 square feet of private apartment in congregate housing. Unlike most long-term care facility residents, congregate housing residents retain control of their money, their personal affairs, their daily routine and the freedom to come and go as they please. Congregate housing appears to promote more self-sufficiency, encourage cost-saving interdependence with friends and neighbors...
Page 61 - We decided to give the program to HUD. We viewed it as a housing program, not a services program. Unfortunately, all the people who seem to review this in the administration circles are all on the services side rather than on the HUD side. When it got up to OMB, at the time we put forth this program, it went to the services people who did not understand it. It is a housing program. It gives people a type of living situation that they could not otherwise have.
Page 10 - ... older individuals and individuals with disabilities, and the relationship of the proposal to the needs and characteristics of the eligible residents of the projects where the services are to be provided...
Page 86 - THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND CONSUMER INTERESTS SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES by SCOTT L.
Page 9 - ... housing. Section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as . amended, offers direct, long-term Federal loans to eligible, private, nonprofit groups to finance rental housing and related facilities for the elderly and/or handicapped. Housing projects which applied for CHSP awards were required to indicate that CHSP services were needed because services existing in the community were insufficient or inadequate to meet the needs of project residents. The key aspects of the program are: — Participants...
Page 7 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am pleased to testify before you today on the Federal Government's ability effectively to coordinate and manage its litigation activities.
Page 5 - Indeed, since 1965, the Department of Social Gerontological Research of the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged...
Page 3 - The Office of Policy Development and Research in the Department of Housing and Urban Development...

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