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Download full textComptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1980
The results of a reivew by the United States General Accounting Office (GAO), this paper examines the Title XX Program of the Social Security Act and makes suggestions for its improvement. The Title XX Program provides funds to states to enable them to tailor social services programs to fit the needs of local communities. Such services are…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Community Services, Contracts, Federal Programs
Illinois State Dept. on Aging, Springfield. – 1987
This document contains Phase I of the Illinois Department on Aging Human Services Plan for Fiscal Years 1986-1988. It describes planning efforts related to past, current, and future service delivery systems for Illinois' aging services network. The introduction describes the Department on Aging's programs and the service network within which they…
Descriptors: Administration, Aging (Individuals), Community Services, Delivery Systems
Illinois State Dept. on Aging, Springfield. – 1986
This document contains an annual report on Illinois' Community Care Program (CCP), a program which provides in-home and other support services to help older persons to remain living at home and avoid premature institutionalization. Three levels of care provided by the CCP are described: (1) chore housekeeping, consisting of basic household tasks…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Aging (Individuals), Community Services, Home Management
Illinois State Dept. on Aging, Springfield. – 1987
This document describes Illinois' Community Care Program (CCP), a program which provides chore housekeeping, homemaker, and adult day care services to older persons who cannot perform some tasks basic of everyday life without assistance, in order to help them live independently. Case management, information and referral, and nursing home…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Cleaning, Community Services, Daily Living Skills
Jones, Mary Ann; And Others – 1976
This document presents an evaluation of the New York State Preventive Services Demonstration Project, which provides services to families in distress to shorten or prevent the placement of children in foster care. A total of 549 cases, involving 992 children, were involved in the 1-year study. The experimental group of 373 cases received services…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Child Welfare, Comparative Analysis, Day Care
Litvak, Simi; And Others – 1987
Data were gathered from 154 U.S. programs providing personal assistance services for the disabled. The survey identified approximately 850,000 people receiving community-based, publicly-funded personal maintenance, hygiene, mobility, or household assistance services, with physically disabled individuals being the most often served. The report…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Attendants, Daily Living Skills, Delivery Systems
Litvak, Simi; And Others – 1987
This executive summary reviews results of a survey of 154 publicly-funded programs providing personal assistance services to disabled individuals. Introductory chapters identify the need for a national personal assistance program and policy, the concept of personal assistance and attendant services, the potential user population, and U.S. sources…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Attendants, Daily Living Skills, Delivery Systems
