The group meals also provide opportunities for adult education, socializing and recreation. Adult day care provided 668 adults with health, social and support services in a center during the day. Services provided included 146,502 hours of day care to 622 persons and 108,190 hours of in-home respite to 791 persons. The Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program advocates for residents of nursing homes and personal care homes to help them resolve problems with services and benefits. In FY 2000 the Ombudsman program helped over 180,000 people by visiting residents and providing information and education, and worked to resolve over 7,000 complaints.
Representation is provided when necessary.
ELAP served 31,268 seniors in FY 2000. In the past two years, over 8,000 seniors received brief legal assistance from the division's partner, the Georgia Senior Legal Hotline. Looking to the future The aging of our population is one of the most significant trends affecting our society today. Georgia's population aged 60 and older is expected to increase 52.6 percent between 1990 and 2010, from 893,049 people to 1,362,842. Georgia has the fourth fastest growing elderly population in the United States.