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11 <br />result in information sharing among agencies within the CRC. As a result, the consumer should <br />receive access to a full array of services with reduced paperwork and reduced wait time. <br />2. Carol Woods has awarded the CRC a $10,000 award for its first implementation year from <br />its Community Connections for Seniors project, funded by The Duke Endowment. <br />3. The CRC (Orange County and Chatham County) agreed to participate in a Nursing Home <br />Modernization Grant submitted by the N.C. Division of Aging and Adult Services to the federal <br />government. If funded, the grant would create an Orange County pilot program in which <br />persons who exceed poverty level can be granted limited federal funds to create an <br />individualized in-home long-term care plan. The goal is to design programs that cost less than <br />placement in a nursing home while providing greater personal freedom and satisfaction. <br />4. A group respite demonstration program called "Caregivers Day Out", which provides a one <br />day per week break for caregivers, continues to be held at the Seymour Center. The goal is to <br />have local faith groups visit the program and consider replicating in their faith communities. <br />Activities and Accomplishments: 2008-09 <br />1. Weekly group respite at the Seymour Center provides highly cost-effective therapeutic care to <br />frail seniors with a unit personnel cost of $3.90 per client hour - a stark contrast to the traditional <br />per client unit hour rate of $14.40 for an in-home aide. <br />2. Aging Transitions developed a mild dementia support and exercise group at Seymour Center <br />for 2009 and 2010. This group helped alleviate social isolation of newly diagnosed individuals <br />and to enable them to use the senior centers for structure, socialization and therapeutic exercise. <br />There was no personnel cost to the county since MSW students facilitated the group under <br />clinical supervision from staff LCSW. <br />3. Aging Transitions staff has been actively engaged in the Transitions subcommittee that has <br />been developed in response to the 2-day community meeting in Hillsborough. This transitions <br />group has been working closely with CRC, UNC Hospitals, a Duke Endowment Grant, and <br />multiple public and private agencies. <br />Recommendation for 2010: <br />1. Continue outreach to churches with the goal of replicating the group respite in churches <br />throughout Orange County. <br />2. Continue working in tandem with the CRC, Hospital Discharge Planning Grant, and the <br />Transitions subcommittee. <br />3. Enlist graduate students to develop and create ashort-term support group for individuals with <br />mild dementia. <br />4. Carol Woods awarded the Chatham-Orange CRC an additional $10,000 from its Community <br />Connections for Seniors project, funded by The Duke Endowment. <br />5. In conjunction with the CRC, the Orange-Chatham area was selected by the NC Department of <br />Health and Human Services (DHHS) to be a pilot site for a new CMS-funded grant: Person- <br />Centered Hospital Discharge Planning. <br />Objective D-2: Improve the coordination of transitional care through increased <br />contact and training of health care and community care providers. <br />Lead Organization(s): Department on Aging- Aging Transitions Div. with Carol Woods- <br />Community Connections for Seniors Project. <br />9 <br />