Elderly Welfare services are designed to support seniors to ensure their needs are met on a long term basis. The elderly welfare system includes a variety of services such as:

1. Senior Centers and Home Delivered Meals
   
2. Case management, supportive counseling, adult day services, senior transportation, adult protective services
   
3. Home health care and geriatric mental health services

Recent Advocacy:

FPWA successfully advocated to defeat proposed changes to Title XX funding which threatened the closure of 110 senior centers. However, with the projected increase in the elderly population, protecting vital programs for the low-income elderly will continue to be our advocacy focus.

Policy Documents:

• View Policy Brief - Intensive Case Managment Services : An Important Option for at Risk Seniors pdf (205448 bytes)
  
• View Testimony - Testimony before the New York City Council Aging and Finance Committees Hearing on the Mayor’s Fiscal Year 2013 Preliminary Budget pdf (230752 bytes) (March 15, 2012)
  
• View Testimony- Testimony to the Assembly Ways And Means Committee & Senate Finance Committee on the 2012 – 2013 Executive Budget Proposal for Health and Medicaid pdf (37229 bytes)(February 8,2012)
  
• View Testimony - Testimony to the New York State Assembly Standing Committee on Aging, Public Hearing on: The Examination of Programs that Support Seniors in the Community pdf (36501 bytes) (December 13, 2011)
  
• View Testimony - Executive Budget Proposal for Health and Medicaid pdf (49116 bytes)(March 3, 2011)
  
• View testimony before the New York City Aging Committee and Subcommitte on Senior Centers pdf (121893 bytes) (February 17, 2011)
  
• View Testimony - Executive Budget Proposal for Human Services pdf (68531 bytes) (February 16, 2011)
  
• Testimony to the New York State Assembly Aging Committee, Senior Centers, Nov. 16, 2010 pdf (33753 bytes)
  
• Testimony to the NYC Council Aging Committee on the 2009-2010 Budget pdf (51848 bytes) (May 18, 2009)

Recommendations:

• The NYC Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) puts the poverty rate for elderly New Yorkers at 21%, because of this high need, funds for senior services such as senior centers, home delivered meals and case management should not be cut.
  
• Further investments are needed to meet the increased demand and projected future needs for this growing population.
  
• Funds also need to be made available for non-DFTA funded senior centers to accommodate the growing number of seniors within their communities.

Portfolio Expert: Kathleen Fitzgibbons, MPA







Fact Sheet: Key Facts on Elderly Welfare pdf (29647 bytes)