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Lawmakers hear push to keep and increase funding for respite and senior volunteer programs
Summary
Supporters and state officials urged the House Health Committee to pass House Bill 704, an appropriations request to maintain and expand respite grants for family caregivers, Alzheimer'related dementia supports and three senior volunteer programs; advocates said the changes would keep people at home and reduce higher downstream costs.
Representative Mary Jane Wallner, prime sponsor of House Bill 704, told the House Committee on Health and Human Services and Elderly Affairs the bill is primarily an appropriations measure to make sure funding that has been in place for respite, volunteer and related family caregiver programs "stays in place."
Wendy Altman, bureau chief for the Bureau of Adult and Aging Services at the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, described the bill as aligned with DHHS's strategy for healthy aging and family caregiver supports. She told the committee the Alzheimer's disease and related dementia (ADRD) respite grant currently serves a little more than 250 individuals and that proposed increases would allow the state to serve "a few hundred more" caregivers depending on outreach…
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