§349-15 - Coordination and development of caregiver support services.
[PART II.]
CAREGIVER SUPPORT SERVICES
Note
Part heading added by L 2007, c 93, §8.
Revision Note
Enacted as part III, this part was renumbered as part II
pursuant to §23G-15.
[§349-15 Coordination and development of
caregiver support services.] The executive office on aging shall
coordinate a statewide system of caregiver support services by, among other
things:
(1) Integrating family caregiver support with the
aging and disability resource center demonstration project;
(2) Analyzing the long-term care needs of older
adults and the capacity of family and informal caregivers to help them remain
safely at home;
(3) Advocating, mobilizing, and coordinating employer
and community resources to enable and augment family caregiver support;
(4) Establishing and maintaining protocols and
standards for federal and state caregiver services administered by state,
county, or other local agencies on aging;
(5) Establishing and supervising the alignment of
long-term care advocacy assistance staff caregiver support objectives with the
planning, resource development, grants management, data management, and
evaluation functions of the executive office on aging; and
(6) Coordinating statewide support for grandparents
and other aging relative caregivers of children eighteen and under. [L 2006, c
262, §5]
Revision Note
Section codified pursuant to §23G-15.