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
Plan - How we plan for progress
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Performance Report- How we report our progress
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Highlighted Measure:
Prior to State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2015, the number reported was the total number of consumer contacts. Beginning in SFY 2015, the number reported has been changed to an estimated unduplicated count of consumer contacts.
Beginning in SFY 2017, the measure changed from tracking the number of contacts with caregivers to tracking the number of caregivers served.
Data Source: Department on Aging (Harmony-SAMS Case Management System)
Updated 10/27/2017 |
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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:
Department on Aging is building support for family
caregivers to ensure services that sustain
a caregiver's 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 10/27/2017 |
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:
Healthy aging objectives will be completed by continuing
efforts of the Department on Aging in
administering the Older American Act nutrition
program. The Department provides technical assistance
to the Area Agencies on Aging regarding funding,
compliance with state and federal guidelines,
increasing efficiencies or service delivery,
communication of best practices, identifying collaborative
opportunities, and communicating the preventative
and health benefits of the nutrition program.
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