The Department has partnerships with nineteen of these.
What are Area Agencies on Aging?
100
The role of the SCSEP program is this.
What is providing training and employment assistance to eligible workers 55 years of age and older through participating non-profit or government agencies?
100
This program is designated as Maryland’s single point of entry for connection to community-based long term services and supports.
What is Maryland Access Point (MAP)?
100
This state and federally funded program is charged with assisting people who reside in nursing homes or assisted living.
What is the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program?
100
This time-honored tradition brings together professionals, advocates and older Marylanders to celebrate achievements of older adults in performing arts, health and fitness, leadership and advocacy in the state of Maryland.
What is The Governor’s Leadership in Aging Awards Ceremony?
200
These are the four components of the Department’s vision.
What are dignity, opportunity, choice and independence?
200
An individual can reach MAP via these three methods.
What are online, by phone or walk-in?
200
This program provides social and nutritional support for older adults who have trouble getting out of their homes.
What is the Home Delivered Meals Program?
200
When a person 65 and older is deemed by a court of law to lack the capacity to make or communicate decisions and has no representative to make decisions for them, this program can help.
What is the Public Guardianship Program?
200
There are 250 of these meal sites across Maryland.
What are Congregate Meal Programs?
300
In 1959, the Maryland Department of Aging was established as this.
What is the State Coordinating Commission on the Problems of the Aging.
300
Expand these acronyms: MAP, SHIP, SMP, SCSEP, CIL
What are
Maryland Access Point,
State Health Insurance Assistance Program
Senior Medicare Patrol
Senior Community Service Employment Program and
Center for Independent Living?
300
This Maryland program is directed to helping individuals get out of nursing homes and back into the community.
What is Money Follows the Person (MFP)?
300
Older adults or caregivers in need of affordable legal advice, counseling or representation, can turn to this program.
What is the Senior Legal Assistance Program?
300
This is the Department's largest grant.
What is The Older Americans Act?
400
This state statute serves as one of two prime bases for the Department’s operations.
What is Human Services Article Title 10?
400
Three of the Department's primary audience are these groups.
Who are older adults, individuals with disabilities, veterans, caregivers, families, and professionals?
400
This is the primary service that staff of local Area Agencies on Aging provide for community-based Medicaid waivers and Community First Choice.
What is case management?
400
These local and volunteer individuals advocate for older adults when they are being abused in long-term care facilities.
Who are the Ombudsmen?
400
Kathy Greenlee has this role and emphasizes this critical issue.
What is
Administrator of the Administration for Community Living
(Assistant Secretary, Administration on Aging)
and
Elder Abuse Protection?
500
These state offices are formal partners in the MAP program.
What are the Departments of Health and Mental Hygiene, Disabilities, Human Resources, and the Governor’s Office of Deaf and Hard of Hearing?
500
SHIP and SMP rely heavily on this group to accomplish their work.
Who are volunteers?
500
The average person served by the Senior Care Program saves the Medicaid program this much money by avoiding nursing home placement.
What is $68,301 per person?
500
This type of retirement housing is financially regulated by our office and offers a continuum of care from independent to skilled nursing.
What is a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC)?
500
Together, these three employees represent nearly 85 years of service to the Maryland Department of Aging.
Who are Jeannie Haw, Pat Bayliss and Janice MacGregor?