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HRD-77-82 1 (1977-08-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaacni0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DOC'1NENT RSUM 03057 - [12153247j Raic±a Local Area Agencies Help the Aging but Problems Need Correcting. HRD-77-82; B-165430. August 2, 1977. 45 pp. + 8 appendices (25 pn.)• Rriport to Rep. John Brademas, Chairman, House Committee on Education and Labor: Select Education Subcomuittee; Sen. Frank Church, Chairmanv Sen:'-, Special Committee on Aging; Sen. Thcmas F. Eagleton, Chairman, Senato Committee on Human Resources: Aging Subcomaittee; by Elmer B. Stoats, Comptroller General. Issue Area: Incon- Sqcurity Programs: Progre.hs for Special Target Populations (1304). Contact Humau Resources Div. Budget Function: Incoas Security: Public A3sistance and Other Intome Supplements (604), Organi-ation Concerned: Administration on Aging; Department of Health, Education, and welfare. Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Education and Labor: Select bducation Subcommittee; Senate Special Committee on Aging; Senate Committee on Human Resources' Aging Subcommittee. Authority, Older Americans Ameadments of 1975 tP.L. 94-135). Older Americans Comprehensive Services Amendments of 1973 .P.L. 93-29). Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended (42 U.S.C. 3001). OMB Circular P.-95. State agencies on aging allocate funds to local c:.jaizations they designate as area agencies on aging,! which coordinate existing services and puol available but untapped resources to either improve existing services for older Americans or implement new ones. Social services may also be funded. Findings/Conclusions: Although most area agencies had Dot been operating 1 full year at the time of GAO's study, they were pooling and coordinating services as required. However, many problems in implementing the prograA were identified by Federal, State, and local officials. These included: funding levels were too low to properly implement and administer the program; the size and/or qualifications of staffs were inadequate; the clarity, reasonableness, consistency, or timing of some policies issued by the State agencies on aging or the Administration on Aging were unsatisfactory; adapting from former programs to the area agency concept created problems; the current division of tuties among State and area agencies and service providers does not apply to all situations; almost 20% of the area agencies were not meeting the regulation to serve por and minority elderly people in proportion to their relative numbers; and the State agencies did not provide enoagh services and guidance. (Author/SC)

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