DEPARTMENT PERFORMANCE
Aging
Linda Miller, Director
Mission Statement:
The mission of the Iowa Department on Aging is to develop a comprehensive, coordinated and cost-effective system of long-term living and community support services that help individuals maintain health and independence in their homes and communities.
Measures:
Providing assistance
to family caregivers
Home
delivered meals improve nutrition
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Performance Plan - How we measure our progress
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Strategic
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Performance Report- How we report our progress
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Highlighted Measure:
This measure tracks the number of caregivers served.
Data Source: Department on Aging (Harmony-SAMS Case Management System)
Updated 09/17/2021 |
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Why
this is important:
The purpose of the family caregiver support program is to provide support services for family caregivers of older Iowans, for grandparent caregivers of grandchildren, or older persons who are relative caregivers for an adult with a disability aged 18-59. Family caregivers provide the vast majority of the assistance that enables older people to live independently in their homes and communities. Informal, family caregivers are an important component of the home and cmmunity-based care system. By supporting caregivers, the program's services can delay or defer more costly institutional care for the older adult family member or adult family member with a disability.
What we're doing about this:
The Iowa Aging Network is building support for family caregivers to ensure the services they need to sustain their role as a caregiver, and to maintain their emotional and physical health, are available and accessible to them. The focus of the program is to promote and provide caregiver training and support services. In doing so, Caregivers services allow them to sustain their caregiving role and maintain their emotional and physical health.
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Highlighted Measure:
The
percentage of high nutrition
risk Home Delivered Meal, congregate meals, nutrition counseling participants
with multiple nutrition risk
assessments, who maintained or
improved their Nutrition Risk
Scores.
Note: Home Delivered Meal participants nutrition risk screening changed from once every six months to once per year.
Data Source: Department on Aging
Updated 09/20/2021 |
NOTE: Data are cumulative |
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Why
this is important:
The nutrition program was developed
to improve the nutritional health of older Iowans. Increasing this percentage shows that participants
with multiple risks are maintaining or
improving nutritional health with receipt
of home delivered meals, congregate meals and nutrition counseling. By helping
older Iowans stay healthy in their own homes,
it helps delay nursing home placement.
What we're doing about this:
The nutrition programs focus on nutritious meals and opportunities for socialization contributed to positive outcomes for meal participants. Nutrition education also plays an important role in addressing nutrition risk factors. It is aimed at improving senior health by promoting the consumption of more fruits and vegetables, increased physical activity, and improved food safety awareness through the distribution of educational materials and regular presentations to meal recipients.
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