| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| Area agencies on aging: meeting the needs of persons with developmental disabilities and their aging families | | Author(s) | Philip McCallion, Matthew P Janicki |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 16, no 3, September 1997 |
| Pages | pp 270-284 |
| Keywords | Cognitive impairment ; Family care ; Services ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Amendments to the Older Americans Act in 1987 and 1992 targeted provision of services by area agencies on aging (AAAs) to persons with developmental disabilities and their family caregivers. This article reports on a survey of AAAs throughout the United States to assess the success and commitment of AAAs in implementing these provisions. Specifically, the survey assessed the presence of related organisational mechanisms, services, and linkages to other agencies. Most AAAs reported the presence of services and linkages related to serving this population. Organisational mechanisms within AAAs that were likely to develop and sustain options for these families were less evident. AAAs generally reported that they had no reliable estimate of the number of older primary caregivers to adults with learning disabilities in their catchment area. It is recommended that families, advocates, and state units on ageing encourage AAAs to carry out local needs assessments and more vigorously develop organisational mechanisms within their agencies to provide support to older caregivers of adults with learning disabilities. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981015228 A |
| Classmark | E4: P6:SJ: I: 7T |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|