PUBLIC LAW 95-478—OCT. 18, 1978
92 STAT. 1523
"(B) in-home services (homemaker and home health aide, visiting and telephone reassurance, and chore maintenance); and " (C) legal services; and that some funds will be expended for each such category of services; "(3) designate, where feasible, a focal point for comprehensive service delivery in each community to encourage the maximum collocation and coordination of services for older individuals, and give special consideration to designating multipurpose senior centers as such focal point; "(4) provide for the establishment and maintenance of information and referral services in sufficient numbers to assure that all older individuals within the planning and service area covered by the plan will have reasonably convenient access to such services; "(5)(A) provide assurances that preference will be given to providing services to older individuals with the greatest economic or social needs and include proposed methods of carrying out the preference in the area plan; and "(B) assure the use of outreach efforts that will identify individuals eligible for assistance under this Act, with special emphasis on rural elderly, and inform such individuals of the availability of such assistance; "(6) provide that the area agency on aging will— "(A) conduct periodic evaluations of activities carried out under the area plan; "(B) furnish appropriate technical assistance to providers of social services, nutrition services, or multipurpose senior centers in the planning and service area covered by the area plan; "(C) take into account in connection with matters of general policy arising in the development and administration of the area plan, the views of recipients of services under such plan; "(D) serve as the advocate and focal point for the elderlj! within the community by monitoring, evaluating, and commenting upon all policies, programs, hearings, levies, and community actions which will affect the elderly; " (E) where possible, enter into arrangements with organizations providing day care services for children so as to provide opportunities for older individuals to aid or assist on a voluntary basis in the delivery of such services to children; " (F) where possible, enter into arrangements with local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and nonprofit private organizations, to use services provided for older individuals under the community schools program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; 20 USC 821 note. "(G) establish an advisory council consisting of older indi- Advisory council, viduals who are participants or who are eligible to partici- establishment, pate in programs assisted under this Act, representatives of older individuals, local elected officials, and the general public, to advise continuously the area agency on all matters relating to the development of the area plan, the administration of the plan and operations conducted under the plan; " (H) develop and publish methods by which priority of
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