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National
Family Caregiver Support Program (NFCSP) |
The NFCSP calls for the states,
working in partnership with Area Agencies on Aging and local
community-service providers, and tribes to provide a continuum of caregiver
services, including information, assistance, individual counseling, support
groups, training, respite, and supplemental services. These caregiver support
services are available to adult family members or other individuals who are
informal providers of in-home and community care to older people. Caregiver
support services are also available to grandparents or older individuals who are
relative caregivers for a child, age 18 and under. Priority consideration for
services is to be given to people in greatest social and economic need, with
particular attention to low-income older individuals, and older individuals
providing care and support to people 18 and under with mental retardation and
related developmental disabilities. |
Older Americans Act Amendments of
2000, section 316, (P.L. 106-501, |
Committee on Health, |
Aging Subcommittee |
Committee on |
Postsecondary |
Department of Health and Human
Services, Administration on Aging |
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