The department shall maintain a program to promote availability of medical and health care for the aging. The department may contract with public or private organizations for conducting pilot projects designed to determine the most effective and most efficient methods of providing medical and health care services for the aging.
For purposes of this chapter, the term “aging” means persons who are eligible for old age benefits under the Social Security Act. Such program may include, but is not limited to:
(a) Technical and financial assistance to local agencies for pilot projects developing or testing new or innovative systems for assuring the availability of medical and health care for the aging. Pilot projects may include, but are not limited to:
(1) Mobile health clinics.
(2) Mobile health teams.
(3) Patient transportation systems.
(4) Patient surveillance and referral systems.
(b) Studies of the health and medical care of the aging of the state.
(c) Coordination with similar programs of the federal government, other states, and public or private organizations.
(d) Development of recommendations for improved systems of medical and health care.
(e) Collection and summarization of statistics describing needs for and effectiveness of various methods of providing health and medical care.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 1996.)