{"id":85,"date":"2015-04-22T15:17:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.6.43.170\/jcaaa\/?p=85"},"modified":"2020-10-13T13:11:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T13:11:47","slug":"legal-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcaaa.org\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Medication Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>THE OPTIONS PROGRAM<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe Options program available through the Jefferson County Area Agency on Aging assists older adults in maintaining independence in the community and delay the need for more costly care\/services.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>To be eligible an individual MUST:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\u221a be 60 years of age or older<br \/>\n\u221a be a Pennsylvania resident<br \/>\n\u221a be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident<br \/>\n\u221a experience some degree of frailty in regard to physical and\/or mental status that impacts daily functioning<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the individual cannot be receiving Medical Assistance (MA) Long-term Care Services (Nursing Facility, LIFE, Home and Community Based Waivers) or Act 150.<\/p>\n<p>Care Management Activities may include a trained staff that will coordinate available resources in the community.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Options Services:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\u2022 Non-Congregate\/In-Home Meal Service<br \/>\n\u2022 Personal Emergency Response System (PERS)<br \/>\n\u2022 Personal Care Services<br \/>\n\u2022 Medication Management<\/p>\n<p>Personal Care services can include some light housekeeping tasks, laundry assistance and grocery shopping. Personal Care MUST BE completed before any cleaning services can be provided, This is a program requirement.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">To be eligible:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nQualifying income limits are updated each year.<br \/>\nTotal combined resources must be below $50,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provides the set-up of medications by a Registered Nurse through a Home Health Agency to help consumers manage their health care needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-services","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcaaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcaaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcaaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcaaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcaaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jcaaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4048,"href":"https:\/\/jcaaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/4048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcaaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcaaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcaaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcaaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}