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volunteer seniors would call isolated seniors on a regular basis. The first goal under the Care Management subgroup involves getting county agencies to meet and share information and concerns regarding common clients and services. A lot more can be done by working together.. The second goal involves coordinating services among private, public and volunteer agencies. Kate Barrett said that she has a lot of questions about how this can be done. This seems to be something that people are interested in but the question of who would be responsible world need to be addressed. The third goal would be to develop a voluntary database of clients so that crucial information regarding clients will be available to professionals. The fourth goal would be to add Co the Orange County Resource Guide website state and national professional organizations and the last goal is to add professional staff capable of continuing physical rehabilitation interventions for seniors discharged from home health rehabilitation but who are still in need of follow-up in order to maintain optimal functioning. The Mental Health subgroup is proposing to have a partnership and implement a depression care system. She encouraged members of this Steering Committee to go to www.im~ct.ucla.orr? and check out this website., In the report that was distributed by Kate Barrett, there is additional information about A Primary Care Collaborative Model and Stepped Care. A depression care specialisC would be in the physician's offiice. There would be a geriatric psychiatrist who would serve in a consulting role. What you do is to remove the stigma of going to a Mental Health facility. This would also reduce the cost, It would take the Department on Aging working with UNC to make this work. The last subgroup working with dementia would include a massive outreach to minority churches. This would include information on how to get help. Ann .Johnson said that she feels it is important for people who are incontinence to realize that they don't have Co be incontinent, necessarily. Jerry Passmore said that he plans to meet with the architect for the new senior center and he will certainly make this point.. C. Institutionalized/Severely Impaired Functional Group- Jill Passmore .lilt Passmore said that they have identified Four (4) issues for the severely impaired/institutionalized older adults. They are listed below: • Quality of Life and Care issues •:• Caregiver Support/Work Force Issues • Education/Outreach •'• Person-directed Care They tools the previous Master Aging Plan and reviewed it and the priorities that were assigned and looked at all the objectives that were previously assigned to these priorities. They then decided to either keep as is or amend or delete them. The last meeting was spent on this project.. They will take this information back to the committee and look at where there are overlaps and holes in the plan. They will then set an action plan. They will divide these goals into legislation action, advocacy action or enforcement They will then make their recommendations, BREAK - (10 MINUTES) 4. Complete the Review, Clarification and RatinE of Issues in the four riori areas Housin Transpa•tation, Information/Access and transitional Care from the April 20"' Special Meetin TRANSPORTATION A. Review the Issue Priorities from Breakout Groups (See April 20`x' minutes) Al Terry reviewed the Transportation priority issues as listed on the handout, The first one