Report Title:

Family and Caregiver Support; DOH Services

Description:

Requires department of health, within limits of state and federal resources, to provide certain family and caregiver support services to persons aged 60 and older and their families and caregivers.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2114

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to family and caregiver support.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 321, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§321-    Provision of services; family and caregiver support. Within the limits of state and federal resources allocated or available for the purposes of this chapter, the director shall provide services that may be necessary to maintain and enhance caregiving for persons sixty years of age or older in community-based homes and provide family and caregiver support. For the purposes of this section, "family and caregiver support" means a flexible and varied network of support that does not supplant community resources, and which is capable of supporting the individual families caring for persons sixty years of age or older. These services may include, but are not limited to:

(1) Personal and family counseling, advice, mediation, and support groups;

(2) Information, education, and training about caregiving;

(3) Home-delivered meals;

(4) Assisted transportation;

(5) Bathing and personal care services;

(6) Rehabilitation services;

(7) Health maintenance;

(8) Homemaker and chore services;

(9) Adult day care and adult day health services;

(10) Respite care;

(11) Care plan services;

(12) Senior companion; and

(13) Toll-free telephone help services."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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