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S 1574 114th Congress Senate

CARE Act

Official title: A bill to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to establish a community care wrap-around support demonstration program, a pilot project on services for recipi… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to establish a community care wrap-around support demonstration program, a pilot project on services for recipients of federally assisted housing, and a national campaign to raise awareness of the aging network and to promote advance integrated long-term care planning, and for other purposes.

Introduced: June 15, 2015 Introduced by: Merkley, Jeff Democratic · Oregon See on congress.gov
Social Welfare AgingGovernment information and archivesHealth programs administration and fundingHealth promotion and preventive care
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Housing and community development fundingHousing for the elderly and disabledLong-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Jun 15, 2015
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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Older Americans Community Access Revitalization and Education Act or the CARE Act

Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to direct the Administration on Aging (AoA) of the Administration for Community Living of the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a community care wrap-around support demonstration program of grants to enable eligible entities to: (1) establish community care wrap-around support partnerships; and (2) carry out specified activities, including longitudinal care plans for each eligible older individual as well as medication management and medical nutrition therapy.

Directs the AoA to provide funding through area agencies on aging, and other approved entities, to not-for-profit owners or managers of housing for a pilot project service packaged and targeted for residents of federally assisted housing.

Directs the AoA, through a coordinated public education and outreach campaign carried out by the National Eldercare Locator Service, and in coordination with other appropriate federal agencies, to promote: (1) enhanced public awareness of the importance of advance planning for integrated long-term care; and (2) the availability of national, state, and local information and resources to assist in such planning, as well as the existence of area agencies and aging service providers to give direct assistance with it.

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