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AGING <br />AGING <br />Program Objectives (continued) <br />Special Note: <br />Contracts to the Elderly Activities Division, Department of Parks & Recreation. <br />Funds provided to the Elderly Activities Division are deposited directly to its respective <br />accounts. Elderly Activities Division will provide the following contracted services and <br />reflects its own program objectives. <br />• Congregate Meals <br />• Training and Employment <br />• Home -Delivered Meals <br />• Nutrition Education <br />• Outreach <br />• Transportation <br />• Volunteer Services <br />Program Highlights <br />The Office of Aging carried out the following major projects and/or initiatives: <br />• The Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) provided information and <br />options counseling to over 1,300 individuals — both elderly and their caregivers — <br />throughout the year via telephone and in-person sessions at the ADRC in Hilo. <br />• The ADRC has begun outreach to agencies in the health care and social services <br />fields in the effort to educate these organizations on how and when to make <br />referrals to the ADRC. This is the beginning of public awareness efforts to ensure <br />that other agencies have an understanding of the ADRC's functions, improving <br />public access to the ADRC via referrals from other organizations. <br />• Staff attended the National n4a Leadership Institute and gained tools and insight <br />for leading the HCOA through the continued development of the ADRC. <br />• Provided home and community-based services for 426 frail and vulnerable adults <br />and their caregivers which allow older adults to remain independent in the home <br />and to age -in-place with dignity. Over 70% of these frail adults remained in their <br />home at discharge. <br />2 <br />