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1.9 Title III E National Family Caregiver Support Program: Lead a multi-strategy approach to assist families and caregivers at home and in long-term care settings by continuing and expanding supportive services
Story Behind the Curve
While the Aging Network has always been involved in meeting the needs of care recipients and caregivers, by creating the National Family Caregiver Support Program, Congress explicitly recognized the important role that family caregivers occupy in our nation’s long-term services and supports system. As of the 2016 Reauthorization of the Older Americans Act, the following specific populations of caregivers are eligible to receive services:
- Adult family members or other informal caregivers age 18 and older providing care to individuals 60 years of age and older
- Adult family members or other informal caregivers age 18 and older providing care to individuals of any age with Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders
- Older relatives (not parents) age 55 and older providing care to children under the age of 18; and
- Older relatives, including parents, age 55 and older providing care to adults ages 18-59 with disabilities
Partners
Area Agencies on Aging, State and Older Americans Act Senior Service Providers including Tribal Senior Service Providers
What We Do
- Support aging in place-providing services in homes and communities
- Support caregivers
- Combat senior hunger
- Encourage healthy and productive aging
- Build and sustain capabilities to meet emerging needs and challenges
Who We Serve
At the heart of the Aging and Long-Term Services Department’s mission is the belief that New Mexico’s older adults and adults with disabilities have the right to remain active participants in their communities, to age with respect and dignity, to be protected from abuse, neglect, and exploitation and to have equal access to health care. The Department is also committed to serving caregivers of older adults, people with disabilities and grandparents caring for children. The Department is a leader in developing programs and building partnerships that support lifelong independence and healthy aging.
How We Impact
Provide accessible, integrated services to older adults, adults with disabilities, and caregivers to assist in maintaining their independence, dignity, health, safety, and economic well-being, thereby empowering them to live independently in their own communities as productively as possible.
Design Specification: Non-Data Driven Measure
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Design Specification: Non-Data Driven Measure |
Performance Dates |
Frequency of Reporting |
Actions Taken/Results |
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Create and market the Caregiver Resource Center within the Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC). |
☒ 2023 ☒ 2024 |
☒ Annually Reporting Months ↓ July SFY23 (7/1/2022–6/30/2023) |
OADC/AND creating plans to align with ADRC |
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Inventory and support training programs for family caregivers, particularly those that are evidence-based or have been tested and demonstrated to be effective. Ensure that information, including schedules, for such programs is aggregated and made easily accessible to family caregivers. |
☒ 2022 ☒ 2023 ☒ 2024 ☒ 2025 |
☒ Quarterly Reporting Month ↓ January, April, July, October SFY22 (7/1/2021–6/30/2022) |
2022 Alzheimer’s State Plan developed. Coordinate with AAAs on annual surveys. |
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Develop and implement an easily searchable website, organized around family (informal) caregiver needs, which will connect caregivers to relevant online resources, training, support, and planning tools. |
☒ 2022 ☒ 2023 ☒ 2024 ☒ 2025 |
☒ Annually Reporting Months ↓ July SFY23 (7/1/2022–6/30/2023) |
2022 Alzheimer’s State Plan developed. OADC coordinating with AND. |
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Create a matrix of current care coordination systems to determine locations, eligibilities, cost, duplications and identification of barriers and gaps. Develop strategies to link these systems. |
☒ 2023 |
☒ Annually Reporting Months ↓ July SFY23 (7/1/2022–6/30/2023) |
Service Gap table/CHW implementation |
Measures
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