FUNCTION

The staff of Aging and Disability Services shares the Montgomery County vision where seniors, persons with disabilities, and their families are fully participating members of our community. The mission of this service area is to affirm the dignity and value of seniors, persons with disabilities, and their families by offering a wide range of information, home and community-based support services, protections, and opportunities, which promote choice, independence, and inclusion.

Program Descriptions

  Admin - Aging & Disability Services

This program provides leadership and direction for the administration of Aging and Disability Services....

  Community Support Network for People with Disabilities

Community Support Network for People with Disabilities (CSN) provides services that enable individuals to remain in their home or in the least restrictive environment and provides general support, guidance, and assistance to clients with developmental disabilities and their families. The My Turn program provides summer camp placements, support, and programmatic/financial...

  Respite Care

This program area provides temporary occasional care of frail seniors, adults and children with disabilities, and children with severe behavioral and/or medical issues to give relief to families and other primary caregivers....

  Aging & Disability Resource Unit

This program assists seniors, persons with disabilities, and their families, in defining their needs, locating required services, and facilitating the application process to access services....

  Assessment & Continuing Care Management Services

This program provides multi-disciplinary assessments, care planning, and case management services to frail seniors and adults with disabilities to remedy and prevent abuse, neglect, self-neglect, financial exploitation, or inappropriate institutionalization. Services include Adult Protective Services, Social Services to Adults, and the Public Guardianship Program....

  Home Care Services

This program provides personal care assistance to seniors and eligible adults with disabilities who are unable to manage independently due to physical and/or mental impairments. Home Care Services prevent abuse, neglect, and exploitation of vulnerable adults, and enhance overall quality of life by providing personal care, chore assistance, therapeutic support,...

  Adult Foster Care

This program provides subsidies and case management for low-income seniors who live in group homes for the frail elderly, and adult foster care homes for frail seniors and adults with disabilities....

  Medicaid Funded Long-Term Care Services

This program administers and operates Maryland's Long-Term Care Medicaid program, Coordination of Community Services (CCS), and Community First Choice (CFC). CFC Supports Planners and Nurse Monitors provide a continuum of services designed to allow people of all ages and in need of long-term care to live in the community, rather...

  Community Provider Support

This program provides financial support to the providers and agencies in the community that work with the entire spectrum of clients served by the Department through Aging and Disability Services....

  Area Agency on Aging

The Area Agency on Aging provides programs and services to help seniors remain independent in the community including: nutritious senior meals; assisted living subsidies; technical assistance to community "villages"; support to caregivers; legal representative payee and health promotion services; health insurance counseling; visits to isolated seniors; grocery shopping; transportation and...