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Network of Services
- Information & Assistance/Case Management
This integrated system provides the link to community resources. This may include information provision, referral, short term assistance, advocacy, screening to determine if an in-home assessment is needed. It also actively seeks out at-risk elderly, assesses their needs, then develops and implements coordinated case plans for insuring multiply-impaired older persons secure the services needed to maintain independence as long as possible.
- Family Caregiver Support
The program provides a multi-faceted system of support services to respond to the needs of family and other unpaid caregivers, and provides information about assistance in gaining access to an array of caregiver services
- Kinship Navigator
The Kinship Navigator Program is designed to connect grandparents and other relatives who are raising children with needed community resources. Its specific goals are to assist kinship caregivers with understanding and navigating the system of services for children living with relatives, help locate and support services for the kinship caregivers, connect families with community resources and keep children from entering foster care.
Kinship Navigator services are offered at the local level through ALTCEW’s partners, Elder Services in Spokane County and Rural Resources Community Action in the Tri-county area. In addition, Whitman County will be served out of Spokane until additional funding is made available. Elder Services, Rural Resources, Ferry County Counseling Services and Council on Aging and Human Services (Whitman County) are ALTCEW’s partners for the delivery of Information and Assistance/General Case Management, Respite Care, Family Caregiver Support, Kinship Care and more. Implementing the Kinship Navigator Program in conjunction with these other services increases referrals and coordination among programs and increases access to services for Kinship Caregivers, as funding expands..
- Transportation
This program provides transportation to and from medical and health care services, social services, and meal programs for older persons who have no other means of transportation or are unable to use existing transportation.
- CHORE Personal Care
The State-funded Chore Personal Care program provides personal care and household assistance to individuals 18 years of age or older, who are found to be at risk of placement in a long-term care facility.
- Title XIX Medicaid Personal Care Program
The Title XIX Medicaid Personal Care program, known as MPC, provides personal care and household assistance to individuals 18 years of age or older, to enable them to remain in the community through the provision of semi-skilled maintenance or supportive services.
- Copes Personal Care Program
The Community Options Program Entry System, known as COPES, provides personal care and household assistance to persons 18 years of age or older who reside in their own homes, adult family homes, congregate care facilities, or assisted living facilities. Clients must be functionally or clinically eligible for nursing facility level of care. COPES is part of the Medicaid program which also covers nursing home care and other medical services. The financial eligibility rules are very similar to those for Medicaid nursing home care.
- Copes Waiver Services
Other services, called COPES Waiver Services (defined in Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 388-71), are also provided through the Community Options Program Entry System (COPES). These services include: Adult Day Care, Client Training, including Personal Assistant User Training, Environmental Modification, Home Delivered Meals, Home Health Aide, Personal Emergency Response System (PERS), Skilled Nursing, and Specialized Medical Equipment and Supplies.
- Bathing Assistance/Limited Home Care
Bathing and Personal Hygiene services are furnished to older persons in their own homes on a visiting basis.
- PEARLS - Specialized Case Management Support for the Program to Encourage Active, Rewarding Lives for Seniors
The Specialized Case Management Support for the Program to Encourage Active, Rewarding Lives for Seniors (PEARLS) is a model project that identifies and treats eligible individuals with mild depression or dysthymia. It was developed by the University of Washington Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC), housed in the University of Washington School of Public Health. The project is an in-home counseling intervention, consisting of eight counseling sessions and six monthly follow-up phone contacts distributed over a 19 week period. The counseling sessions include the following components: (a) problem solving treatment, (b) social and physical activation, (c) pleasant events scheduling, and (d) if appropriate, recommendations for medication management via phone contact with the physician and patient. All intervention activities are conducted under the supervision and review of medical and mental health professionals.
- Home Delivered Meals
The Home-Delivered Nutrition Services program provides nutritious meals and other nutrition services to persons age 60 and over who are homebound by reason of illness, incapacitating disability, or otherwise isolated.
- Health Applicances
The Health Appliance and Limited Health Care Program is designed to improve the health of older persons by screening to detect abnormalities of the ears, eyes, mouth or feet
- Minor Home Repair
Minor Home Repair services consist of those repairs or modifications to client-occupied structures which are essential for the health and safety of older occupants.
- Registered Nurse Consulting Services
Upon referral from Home and Community Services, Aging and Long Term Care of Eastern Washington, or its subcontracted case management organizations, the Registered Nurse Consultant will provide the following services for Medicaid Personal Care and COPES Personal Care clients which may include the following: - Nursing assessment and reassessment
- Instructions to care providers
- Care coordination
- Evaluation
- Respite (In-Home and Out-of-Home)
Relief for families or other unpaid caregivers of disabled adults, including: - Supervision
- Companionship and Personal Care Services
Medically related services are provided only by a licensed health practioner.
- Fundamentals of Caregiving Class
The 28-hour, four-day, Fundamentals of Caregiving class is a requirement for any provider receiving state-funds to care for a client in a private home.
- Continuing Education Classes
ALTCEW provides Continuing Education classes for in-home caregivers,
- RN Delegating Training for Nursing Assistants
The nine-hour self-study course is for caregivers that work or will work in community-based long term care settings.
- Congregate Nutrition
Programs help meet the complex nutritional needs of persons age 60 or over, who do not eat adequately, by providing nutritionally sound and satisfying meals and other nutrition services, including nutrition outreach and nutrition education, in a group setting.
- Employment
Program designed to provide, foster, and promote useful part time work activities for economically disadvantaged persons who are over 55 years of age or older.
- Disease Prevention/Health Promotion
A variety of services to prevent the onset of serious disease and promote healthy behaviors, including, but not limited to health risk assessments, health education, home injury control, medication management, and nutrition counseling.
- Legal Assistance
Provides access to the system by offering representation by a legal provider who acts as an advocate for the socially and economically needy older individual (60 years of age or older) who is experiencing legal problems.
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