The commission is the policymaking body of the sole state agency responsible for administration of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended. The commission shall:
1. Approve state and area plans on aging.
2. Adopt policies to coordinate state activities related to the purposes of this chapter.
3. Serve as an effective and visible advocate for elders by establishing policies for reviewing and commenting upon all state plans, budgets, and policies which affect elders and for providing technical assistance to any agency, organization, association, or individual representing the needs of elders.
4. Divide the state into distinct planning and service areas after considering the geographical distribution of elders in the state, the incidence of the need for supportive services, nutrition services, multipurpose senior centers, and legal services, the distribution of elders who have low incomes residing in such areas, the distribution of resources available to provide such services or centers, the boundaries of existing areas within the state which are drawn for the planning or administration of supportive services programs, the location of units of general purpose, local government within the state, and any other relevant factors.
5. Designate for each planning and service area a public or private nonprofit agency or organization as the area agency on aging for that area.
6. Adopt policies to assure that the department will take into account the views of recipients of supportive services or nutrition services, or elders using multipurpose senior centers in the development of policy.
7. Adopt a formula for the distribution of federal Older Americans Act funds taking into account, to the maximum extent feasible, the best available data on the geographic distribution of elders in the state, and publish the formula for review and comment.
8. Adopt policies to assure that preference will be given to providing services to elders with the greatest economic or social needs, with particular attention to low-income minority elders, and include methods of carrying out the preference in the state plan.
9. Adopt policies to administer state programs authorized by this chapter.
The commission shall adopt administrative rules pursuant to chapter 17A to implement the duties specified in this chapter.
10. Adopt policies by which eligibility for federal, state, and local funding is established at age sixty, with preference in service delivery given to elders age seventy-five or older.
86 Acts, ch 1245, § 1008
C87, § 249D.14
88 Acts, ch 1073, §1
C93, § 231.14
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