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- r ORANGE couWrY BOARD OF COMISSIONERS Action Agenda ACTION AGENDA I'Iai ABSTRACT Item NT} £ PING DATE jlnvamber 16. 19$7 Subject: Monitoring of Domiciliary Homes I Department: County Manager I Public Hearing: ' yes no 1 Attac r - t s Information Contact: Department on Aging Jerry Passmore, .Director Yes phone Number: 732-8181 ext. 280 RPOS : To consider establishing an advisory committee for monitoring. • NEED: With the increase in the number of domiciliary homes in the County (16 with 2 more seeking a license) the Senior Citizens Board sees a need to increase monitoring to insure that the needs of the residents are being satisfactoril> met. Such monitoring exists for those in skilled nursing homes (Nursing Horn- Advisory Committee)- General Statutesnow permit the equivalent to be set Lit for domiciliary homes. Were a committee formed it would have the functions; 1. Promote visitation and awareness of the needs of aging and disabled lersons who reside in the homes. 2. Recruit volunteers to help residents. 3. Provide linkage between Social Services and the domiciliary home administrators for maintaining the spirit of the Domiciliary Home Residents' Bill of Rights. This would include identifying any alle'ed violations and reporting these to the Home administrators and the Department of Social Services who have responsibility for resolutio 4. Report to the Board of Commissioners with a copy to the N. C. Depar - ment of Human Resources containing an appraisal of the problems of the homes as well as issues affecting long term care. A committee approach, if adopted, would be in addition to monitoring already existant iin Social Services. A social worker now must visit the homes month y to make sure that licensing requirements are being met. Proponents of the idea of alcommittee feel that a division of responsibility should exist betw en an adv©cady role for residents versus the investigation role of Social Services. Questions to be decided by the Board include: 1. Whether to have a committee 2, Committee size 3. Make up of its members 4, length of term I 5. Where to locate (under Aging or Social Services) Whether to have the committee function as one which the Board would make appointments or as a sub-committee of the Aging dr Social Services Boards. The Senior Citizens Board recommends approval and has guidelines attached fo the Board fto consider in deciding the above. IMPACT: There are two considerations here: First any committee would need staff ass s- tance. Whlile this could come from existing personnel (DOA or DSS) the DSS Director nptes that additional staff time might be necessary to respond to the concerns raised by the committee. Secondly, Committee members would des re mileage reimbursement. There are no funds budgeted for this. RECOMMENDATION: As the Board decides.