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QUESTION
How are Moya and the Department for the Aging (DFTA) assisting homebound older immigrant adults?
1:50:30
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The Department for the Aging (DFTA) assigns case managers to homebound older immigrant adults for more intensive assistance compared to traditional older adult center services.
- Case management agencies work closely with older adults, providing them with a dedicated case manager.
- Services available through case managers include applications for benefits, entitlements, and other needs.
- This case management approach is more intensive than services offered in older adult centers.
- Most clients are immigrants, reflecting the high proportion of foreign-born individuals among the older adult population.
Alexa Avilés
1:50:30
Can you tell us a little bit about how Moya and and DifTA are reaching homebound on older immigrant adults?
1:50:39
And if you could just describe what the services are like that are available.
Anya Herasme
1:50:45
Sure.
1:50:45
So for whom that older adults, that's our case management agencies work very closely with them.
1:50:50
So they're assigned a case manager, and any services that we provide at an older adult center essentially could be provided.
1:50:56
Through that case manager information, of course, you know, applications for benefits and entitlements It's actually more intent case management's a little more intensive than what we do typically in an older adult center.
1:51:09
So they they really do a full assessment on the clients.
1:51:12
And then they they will work with them whatever their needs are.
1:51:14
And and many of them are, of course, immigrants since we know that the more than half the population of older adults are are foreign born.