Countywide : Grant Given for Program of Aid to Elderly Indigent
Orange County has been chosen as one of 10 sites for an experimental program aimed at assisting or enabling low-income senior citizens to live at home instead of in nursing homes, officials said.
Peggy Weatherspoon, director of the Area Agency on Aging, said she and her staff are “ecstatic” about being named to take part in the Multipurpose Senior Service Program.
The state program is designed to help people who are frail, at least 65 and eligible for Medi-Cal by providing services at their homes, she said.
The Senior Services office of the county’s Community Services Agency will receive $740,725 from the state to administer the program from March 1, 1985, to June 30, l986, according to Jim Dukette, administration manager. The program will serve 200 county residents.
The seniors will be chosen from Garden Grove, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Fullerton, Orange, Huntington Beach and Costa Mesa, Dukette said.
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