PART II. KUPUNA CARE AND CAREGIVER SUPPORT SERVICES [§349-15 Coordination and development of caregiver support services.] The executive office on aging shall coordinate a statewide system of caregiver support services by, among other things: (1) Integrating family caregiver support with the aging and disability resource center demonstration project; (2) Analyzing the long-term care needs of older adults and the capacity of family and informal caregivers to help them remain safely at home; (3) Advocating, mobilizing, and coordinating employer and community resources to enable and augment family caregiver support; (4) Establishing and maintaining protocols and standards for federal and state caregiver services administered by state, county, or other local agencies on aging; (5) Establishing and supervising the alignment of long-term care advocacy assistance staff caregiver support objectives with the planning, resource development, grants management, data management, and evaluation functions of the executive office on aging; and (6) Coordinating statewide support for grandparents and other aging relative caregivers of children eighteen and under. [L 2006, c 262, §5]
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