Effective: September 29, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly The department of aging shall: (A) Be the designated state agency to administer programs of the federal government relating to the aged, requiring action within the state, that are not the specific responsibility of another state agency under federal or state statutes. […]
Effective: September 29, 1999 Latest Legislation: House Bill 283 – 123rd General Assembly (A) When administering funds granted under the Older Americans Act of 1965, 79 Stat. 219, 42 U.S.C. 3001, as amended, the department of aging may divide the state into separate multi-county regions that shall be known as planning and service areas. If […]
Effective: September 30, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 110 – 134th General Assembly The department of aging may develop and offer training programs to area agencies on aging, long-term care facilities, providers of long-term care services, and other interested parties. The department may charge fees for the training programs. Amounts collected from charging the fees […]
Effective: June 30, 1997 Latest Legislation: House Bill 215 – 122nd General Assembly The department of aging shall adopt, and may rescind, rules as necessary to carry out the provisions of Chapter 173. of the Revised Code and may: (A) Provide technical assistance and consultation to public and private nonprofit agencies with respect to programs, […]
Effective: September 29, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 59 – 130th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the Ohio advisory council for the aging, which shall consist of twelve members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Two ex officio members of the council shall be members […]
Effective: October 17, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 166 – 133rd General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) “Respite care” means short-term, temporary care or supervision provided to a person who has dementia in the absence of the person who normally provides that care or supervision. (2) “Dementia” includes Alzheimer’s disease or other […]
Effective: July 26, 1984 Latest Legislation: House Bill 660 – 115th General Assembly deputy director of the aging shall be the acting director when the director is absent or disabled or the position is vacant. The director shall specify who shall be the acting director if no deputy director has been appointed.
Effective: July 1, 2007 Latest Legislation: House Bill 468 – 126th General Assembly (A) The director of aging shall establish a golden buckeye card program and provide a golden buckeye card to any resident of this state who applies to the director for a card and is sixty years of age or older or is […]
Effective: July 1, 2007 Latest Legislation: House Bill 468 – 126th General Assembly Records identifying the recipients of golden buckeye cards issued under section 173.06 of the Revised Code are not public records subject to inspection or copying under section 149.43 of the Revised Code and may be disclosed only at the discretion of the […]
Effective: October 16, 2009 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 128th General Assembly (A) The resident services coordinator program is established in the department of aging to fund resident services coordinators. The coordinators shall provide information to low-income and special-needs tenants, including the elderly, who live in financially assisted rental housing complexes, and assist those […]
Effective: July 26, 1984 Latest Legislation: House Bill 660 – 115th General Assembly The department of aging shall, as appropriate and feasible and to the extent federal, state, and local funding is available, develop a system of community multipurpose senior centers for the purposes of: (A) Providing centralized, coordinated medical, social, supportive, and rehabilitative services […]
Effective: April 5, 2019 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 265 – 132nd General Assembly The services provided by a multipurpose senior center shall be available to all residents of the area served by the center who are sixty years of age or older, except where legal requirements for the use of funds available for a component […]
Effective: June 11, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 386 – 129th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, “bingo,” “bingo game operator,” and “participant” have the same meanings as in section 2915.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Notwithstanding sections 2915.07 to 2915.13 of the Revised Code, a multipurpose senior center may conduct bingo games […]
Effective: October 20, 1987 Latest Legislation: House Bill 253 – 117th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) “Continuing care” means the provision under a written agreement of board, lodging, medical services, nursing, and other health-related services to a person sixty years of age or older, unrelated by consanguinity or affinity to the […]
Effective: September 29, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly As used in sections 173.14 to 173.28 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, “long-term care facility” includes any residential facility that provides personal care services for more than twenty-four hours for one or […]
Effective: September 29, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly The state long-term care ombudsman program established by the department of aging pursuant to division (J) of section 173.01 of the Revised Code shall be known as “the office of the state long-term care ombudsman program.” It shall consist of the state […]
Effective: June 11, 1990 Latest Legislation: House Bill 359 – 118th General Assembly (A) The department of aging shall designate regions to be served by regional long-term care ombudsman programs. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, the state long-term care ombudsman shall designate regional programs in accordance with criteria established […]
Effective: September 29, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly (A) The state long-term care ombudsman shall do all of the following: (1) Appoint a staff and direct and administer the work of the staff; (2) Oversee the performance and operation of the office of the state long-term care ombudsman program, including […]
Effective: June 11, 1990 Latest Legislation: House Bill 359 – 118th General Assembly Each regional long-term care ombudsman program designated under section 173.16 of the Revised Code shall do all of the following: (A) Provide ombudsman services for the region in which it is located; (B) Employ representatives of the office of the state long-term […]
Effective: September 29, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly (A) The office of the state long-term care ombudsman program, through the state long-term care ombudsman and the regional long-term care ombudsman programs, shall receive, investigate, and attempt to resolve complaints made by residents, recipients, sponsors, long-term care providers, or any person […]
