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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Overview of NYC Aging's caregiving program and services
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Commissioner Cortés-Vázquez provides an overview of NYC Aging's caregiving program, emphasizing its importance in supporting the growing number of older adults and caregivers in New York City. The program offers a range of community-based support services to address the challenges faced by caregivers.
- Highlights key services: information and referral, long-term care planning, counseling, respite care, and financial assistance for assisted devices
- Mentions the network of 12 community-based service providers that deliver these services
- Notes that over 5,000 New Yorkers are served annually by the caregiving program
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
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The actions surrounding caregiving for another person from cooking, cleaning, providing support in the home, errands, bathing, and other aspects of daily living add stress to an individual's life in addition to their professional or outside responsibilities or their family responsibilities and make supporting these New Yorkers a priority for New York City aging.
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We know that the share of older adults in New York City will continue to grow in the coming decades and so will the number of care of those caring for others including minors and young people.
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NYC Aging's caregiving program provides community based support such as information and referral, long term care planning, counseling and support, as well as respite care, and financial assistance for some types of assisted devices.
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I am extremely proud of the work that the caregiver program at NYC Aging does for older adults and their family and loved ones, but also recognize that our work grows in proportion to the number of older adults in the city.
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This is only possible because a network of committed community service providers are the ones that actually deliver the service.
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In response to local law ninety seven of twenty sixteen, NYC Aging conducted a survey in partnership with ACS and the mayor's office of people with disability, of unpaid and informal family caregivers in other in order to create a comprehensive plan to address their needs.
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This was the first survey of its kind in New York City to explore the needs of unpaid caregiver rather than those of the professional paid home care worker.
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The target population for this survey were caregivers for an individual 60 years or older, including those with Alzheimer's or related dementia.
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Persons caring for individuals with disability between the ages of 18 and 59.
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Kinship caregivers, grandparents or older relatives caring for children under the age of 18.
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The results of this survey had helped, NYC Aging develop innovations within the caregiving program based on three key findings.
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The overarching need for respite care, the caregivers need for additional information and resources, and transportation resources as part of their caregiving responsibility.
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Contracted caregiver providers serve older adults and their caregivers through vital in person services such as support groups, training, connections to many services available to them as part of their caregiving responsibility.
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We help them with techniques and best practices, access to respite care and other resources to alleviate the rest, the stress of caregiving.
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Regardless of the age of the caregiver, a caregiver will attend to the daily needs of another person whether that is physical, emotional or financial support for a family member, partner, or close friend.
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More than 5,000 New Yorkers are served annually by our caregiving program through the network of 12 community based community based service providers.
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Older adults caring for children or minors fall into a specific demographic served by NYC Aging.