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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
[Document affected by Public Law 106-501 Section 401]
[CITE: 42USC3035j]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                CHAPTER 35--PROGRAMS FOR OLDER AMERICANS
 
   SUBCHAPTER IV--TRAINING, RESEARCH, AND DISCRETIONARY PROJECTS AND 
                                PROGRAMS
 
         Part B--Research, Demonstrations, and Other Activities
 
Sec. 3035j. Neighborhood senior care program


(a) Definitions

    As used in this section:

                   (1) Health and social services

        The term ``health and social services'' includes skilled nursing 
    care, personal care, social work services, homemaker services, 
    health and nutrition education, health screening, home health aid 
    services, and specialized therapies.

                       (2) Volunteer services

        The term ``volunteer services'' includes peer counseling, chore 
    services, help with mail and taxes, transportation, socialization, 
    health and social services, and other similar services.

(b) Service grants

                           (1) In general

        The Assistant Secretary may award grants to eligible entities to 
    establish neighborhood senior care programs, in order to encourage 
    professionals to provide volunteer services to local residents who 
    are older individuals and who might otherwise have to be admitted to 
    nursing homes and to hospitals.

                           (2) Preference

        In awarding grants under this section, the Assistant Secretary 
    shall give preference to applicants experienced in operating 
    community programs and programs meeting the independent living needs 
    of older individuals.

                         (3) Advisory board

        The Assistant Secretary shall establish an advisory board to 
    provide guidance to grant recipients regarding the neighborhood 
    senior care programs. Not fewer than two-thirds of the members of 
    the advisory board shall be residents in communities served by the 
    grant recipients.

                           (4) Application

        To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an entity 
    shall submit an application to the Assistant Secretary at such time, 
    in such manner, and containing such information as the Assistant 
    Secretary may reasonably require. Each application shall--
            (A) describe the activities in the program for which 
        assistance is sought;
            (B) describe the neighborhood in which volunteer services 
        are to be provided under the program, and a plan for integration 
        of volunteer services within the neighborhood;
            (C)(i) provide assurances that nurses, social workers, and 
        community volunteers providing volunteer services and an 
        outreach coordinator involved with the project live in the 
        neighborhood; or
            (ii)(I) reasons that it is not possible to provide such 
        assurances; and
            (II) assurances that nurses, social workers, community 
        volunteers and the outreach coordinator will be assigned 
        repeatedly to the particular neighborhood; and
            (D) provide for an evaluation of the activities for which 
        assistance is sought.

(c) Technical resource center

    The Assistant Secretary shall, to the extent appropriations are 
available, enter into a contract with an applicant described in 
subsection (b)(2) of this section to establish a technical resource 
center that will--
        (1) assist the Assistant Secretary in developing criteria for, 
    and in awarding grants to communities to establish, neighborhood 
    senior care organizations that will implement neighborhood senior 
    care programs under subsection (b) of this section;
        (2) assist communities interested in establishing such a 
    neighborhood senior care program;
        (3) coordinate the neighborhood senior care programs;
        (4) provide ongoing analysis of and collection of data on the 
    neighborhood senior care programs and provide such data to the 
    Assistant Secretary;
        (5) serve as a liaison to State agencies interested in 
    establishing neighborhood senior care programs; and
        (6) take any further actions as required by regulation by the 
    Assistant Secretary.

(Pub. L. 89-73, title IV, Sec. 429B, as added Pub. L. 102-375, title IV, 
Sec. 411, Sept. 30, 1992, 106 Stat. 1252; amended Pub. L. 103-171, 
Sec. 3(a)(13), Dec. 2, 1993, 107 Stat. 1990.)


                               Amendments

    1993--Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 103-171 substituted ``Assistant 
Secretary'' for ``Commissioner'' wherever appearing.


                             Effective Date

    Section inapplicable with respect to fiscal year 1992, see section 
905(b)(3) of Pub. L. 102-375, set out as an Effective Date of 1992 
Amendment note under section 3001 of this title.
