Pennsylvania Code › Title 6 - AGING › Part I - Department of Aging › Chapter 15 - PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR OLDER ADULTS › FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS › Section 15.112 - Uses of funding authorized by the act

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The agency may utilize funding authorized by the act to pay
					 for activities, including the following:
(1) Administering protective services plans
				  as described in §
										15.12(b) (relating
				  to administrative functions and responsibilities of area agencies on
				  aging).
(2) Receiving reports and
				  maintaining records of reports as provided under §§
										15.23 and
				  15.101-15.105 (relating to receiving
				  reports; general agency responsibility; and confidentiality).
(3) Conducting investigations under
				  §§
										15.41-15.47 (relating to investigating
				  reports of need for protective services).
(4) Conducting assessments and developing
				  service plans under §§
										15.92 and
				  15.93 (relating to assessment; and
				  service plan).
(5) Petitioning the
				  court under §§
										15.61-15.63 and
				  15.71-15.75 (relating to agency access to
				  older persons and records; and emergency intervention).
(6) Providing emergency involuntary
				  intervention under §§ 15.71-15.75.
(7) Arranging for available services needed
				  to carry out service plans, which may include, as appropriate, arranging for
				  services for other household members to reduce, correct or eliminate abuse,
				  neglect, exploitation or abandonment of an older adult. The inclusion of
				  services needed by other household members in the service plan will allow the
				  agency to arrange for the provision of those services through public and
				  private entitlements or resources for which the individuals are or may be
				  eligible. The inclusion does not obligate the agency to pay for the services or
				  to provide services which are not available from another appropriate
				  provider.
(8) Purchasing, on a
				  temporary basis, services determined by the service plan to be necessary to
				  reduce, correct or eliminate abuse, neglect, exploitation or abandonment of an
				  older adult when the services are not available within the existing resources
				  of the agency or another appropriate provider. Funding authorized by the act
				  and expended under an area agency on aging protective services plan may not be
				  used for the purchase of services which are already financed through other
				  State-administered plans for local service delivery or through local public and
				  private resources under those plans except with the specific prior approval of
				  the Department. The protective services plan shall identify the agency's
				  proposed expenditures for activities under this paragraph. The agency shall
				  insure that every attempt has been made to provide the service through existing
				  agency resources, appropriate utilization of other providers and the
				  coordination of public and private entitlements and resources prior to entering
				  into the purchase of services for a protective services client.
This section cited in 6 Pa. Code §
												15.91 (relating to
						general).