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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... gram . In recent years this program has taken on increased impor- tance as public policymakers continue to search for new options to deal with the complex issues that are associated with community- based long - term care . As a nation ...
... gram . In recent years this program has taken on increased impor- tance as public policymakers continue to search for new options to deal with the complex issues that are associated with community- based long - term care . As a nation ...
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... gram . We have modified the program to be targeted more directly to those most at risk . Since June 1983 we have required that those served by CHSP be deficient in two or more activities of daily living , of which one must be eating ...
... gram . We have modified the program to be targeted more directly to those most at risk . Since June 1983 we have required that those served by CHSP be deficient in two or more activities of daily living , of which one must be eating ...
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... gram to be targeted more directly to those most " at risk . " Since June 1983 , we have required that those served by CHSP be deficient in two or more Activities of Daily Living ( ADLs ) , of which one must be eating . The tailoring ...
... gram to be targeted more directly to those most " at risk . " Since June 1983 , we have required that those served by CHSP be deficient in two or more Activities of Daily Living ( ADLs ) , of which one must be eating . The tailoring ...
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... gram than what the evaluation actually provides . Is it a matter of just picking and choosing things that might sound better than other things when you talk about your impression of the evalua- tion ? Mr. BEIRNE . No. I believe my ...
... gram than what the evaluation actually provides . Is it a matter of just picking and choosing things that might sound better than other things when you talk about your impression of the evalua- tion ? Mr. BEIRNE . No. I believe my ...
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... gram was a workable program , could establish cooperation between the agencies , enforce coordination of services , that it could be han- dled at the local level without disrupting the operations of local bodies , whether the organizing ...
... gram was a workable program , could establish cooperation between the agencies , enforce coordination of services , that it could be han- dled at the local level without disrupting the operations of local bodies , whether the organizing ...
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aging in place alternative assisted housing average BEIRNE BILL SCHUETTE BONKER Chairman CHART CHSP cost CHSP demonstration CHSP participants CHSP program CHSP services CHSP's congregate housing programs Congregate Housing Services congregate services program CONGRESS LIBRARY CONGRESS THE LIBRARY control group COPD cost effective COST OF NURSING Eisenberg Elaine Anderson elderly and handicapped elderly housing experience finance frail elderly GARDNER gram grant Haselhuhn hous housekeeping Housing Services Program independent living institutionalization JOHN PAUL HAMMERSCHMIDT Lawton LIBRARY OF CONGR LIBRARY OF CONGRESS long-term low income Maine's MARILYN LLOYD meals Medicaid MICHAEL RODGERS Minnesota NAHRO nursing home patchwork percent PREPARED STATEMENT professional assessment committee projects public housing Public Housing Agency Ravoux received residential care facilities residents SCHUETTE Section 202 served services provided sponsors staff subcommittee subsidies support services targeted tenants testimony Thank tion vulnerable WHEELCHAIR WORTLEY
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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...