Now is the time to contact your legislators about the CO-AGE priorities and other issues of concern to older Georgians. Once the session begins, it becomes more difficult to meet with your representative for a good block of time. The following is a brief overview of the CO-AGE priorities for the 2000 session. With CCSP they may continue to live in their homes. The waiting list for CCSP over the last five years has averaged 4,372 persons.
Participants contribute to the cost of the program on a sliding fee scale.
Similar to CCSP, services include among others, home delivered meals, transportation, adult day care, homemaker services, Alzheimer's services and senior center meals. The current waiting list for the HCBS program is 6,101. Like CCSP, the program allows seniors to avoid premature nursing home placement. While the number of personal care homes has increased since that time by 161 percent and the number of residents by 409 percent, the program has seen virtually no increase in state funding. Rep. Michele Henson.