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New needs requests for case management and home care
1:21:37
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Council Member Hudson inquires about NYC Aging's new needs requests for case management and home care. Key points include:
- NYC Aging submitted a package of unmet needs to OMB, focusing on caregiving and community care plans
- The agency determines new needs requests based on growing caregiving needs, demographics, and geographic considerations
- Commissioner Cortés-Vázquez emphasizes the growing number of older adults needing care and the increasing demand for community care plan resources
- The exact details of the funding requests were not shared during the hearing, but a follow-up was promised.
- The agency bases its requests on recognition of growing needs in specific areas and demographic trends.
Crystal Hudson
1:21:37
Thank you.
1:21:38
That was the yes answer that I was looking at.
1:21:41
During last year's preliminary budget hearing NYC Aging testified on various new needs requests that were made to OMB.
1:21:49
This included new needs requests for case management and home care which have still not been added to the budget.
1:21:54
Can NYC Aging provide the committee with any funding requests made to OMB and the mayor this fiscal year?
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
1:22:03
Yeah, I know.
1:22:04
We submitted a package of unmet needs to OMB and we're in conversations with them about that package.
Crystal Hudson
1:22:18
Okay.
1:22:19
Are you able to share any of the details of that package either now or as follow-up?
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
1:22:24
I can follow-up with you.
1:22:26
But it centers around caregiving and community care plan.
Crystal Hudson
1:22:35
Thank you.
Crystal Hudson
1:22:38
How are new need requests determined and how are metrics taken into account when making those requests?
1:22:44
So how did you land on caregiving and the community care plan?
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
1:22:47
It's just a recognition that the caregiving area is growing and the number of older adults needing care is growing.
1:23:03
And the number of community care plan resources to support that are also growing.
1:23:11
And so we base it on by geographic and by need, by demographics.
Crystal Hudson
1:23:20
Okay.