Name: Jessica Lindsey, Select Home Health Services Director of Social Service
Ms. Lindsey presented on behalf of her employer Select Home Services, a company that provides in home care for adults that are unable to take care of themselves. They believe that majority of people would like to stay in their homes as long as they can, and not be sent to care facilities. Due to this belief Select Home Health Services are a resource in the community to help insure that adults have this option. Veterans Medicaid self-pay and long-term care: are the only 4 ways that you can pay for in home care, most people do not qualify for this. The alternative to this is to rely on family and others in the community. With this alternative you see majority of the …show more content…
Leman believes that Indiana needs to adhere to the intent of the APS law passed in 1985 to work like a Social Service Agency. He believes that the way APS operates is wrong and needs to operate like other states. He referred to the Director of APS comments in 2012 that they lock up criminals and if you want APS to hold the hand of the adults in need call a social worker. Indiana is not the envy of other states. Indiana needs to have social workers operate APS, not former and current law enforcement officers.
Name: Michael Sullivan: Director of Alzheimer Association and the Governor’s taskforce on …show more content…
Farkus tried to find the best options for the patients of the hospital when they would come in with the signs of abuse or neglected. She stated that she has contacted APS for help on some cases and gave the following examples of her interactions with them. Ms. Farkus described inconsistencies within APS, not receiving calls back from APS, not willing to work with friends of victims to prove neglected, stated that APS approved a victim’s car as a suitable place of residence. Ms. Farkus stated that APS response varies and that they can be very helpful. The struggle that she has seen with APS is the competency to determine if the patient is able to take care of themselves. She hears from APS that if the hospital is willing to release the patient that they must be safe to go home, this is not comparable. They might be healthy enough to go home but the home may not be a safe environment for the patient being releases. On many occurrences she has called both APS and the police, the result is that police are more effective and respond much
Ms. Lindsey presented on behalf of her employer Select Home Services, a company that provides in home care for adults that are unable to take care of themselves. They believe that majority of people would like to stay in their homes as long as they can, and not be sent to care facilities. Due to this belief Select Home Health Services are a resource in the community to help insure that adults have this option. Veterans Medicaid self-pay and long-term care: are the only 4 ways that you can pay for in home care, most people do not qualify for this. The alternative to this is to rely on family and others in the community. With this alternative you see majority of the …show more content…
Leman believes that Indiana needs to adhere to the intent of the APS law passed in 1985 to work like a Social Service Agency. He believes that the way APS operates is wrong and needs to operate like other states. He referred to the Director of APS comments in 2012 that they lock up criminals and if you want APS to hold the hand of the adults in need call a social worker. Indiana is not the envy of other states. Indiana needs to have social workers operate APS, not former and current law enforcement officers.
Name: Michael Sullivan: Director of Alzheimer Association and the Governor’s taskforce on …show more content…
Farkus tried to find the best options for the patients of the hospital when they would come in with the signs of abuse or neglected. She stated that she has contacted APS for help on some cases and gave the following examples of her interactions with them. Ms. Farkus described inconsistencies within APS, not receiving calls back from APS, not willing to work with friends of victims to prove neglected, stated that APS approved a victim’s car as a suitable place of residence. Ms. Farkus stated that APS response varies and that they can be very helpful. The struggle that she has seen with APS is the competency to determine if the patient is able to take care of themselves. She hears from APS that if the hospital is willing to release the patient that they must be safe to go home, this is not comparable. They might be healthy enough to go home but the home may not be a safe environment for the patient being releases. On many occurrences she has called both APS and the police, the result is that police are more effective and respond much