Oregon: A national example in development of private pay adult foster care programs for the frail elderlyLofquist, T J
An adult foster care home located in Portland, Oregon. This home provides loving care and services to seniors who can't take complete care of themselves because of medical problems, old age, or other similar conditions.
In Oregon, adult foster care (AFC) homes, which are private residences where a live-in manager cares for one to five disabled residents, have been covered by Medicaid since 1981 and seem to offer a mainstream alternative to nursing homes. They house almost 6000 older people, two thirds of ...
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a federal lawsuit last week against the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) on behalf of a woman whose application to adopt siblings from foster care was denied because her Christian faith beliefs do not allow her to agree to support the “sexual ...
Oregon’s foster care system, run by the Oregon Department of Human Services, has faced criticism for housing foster children in temporary hotel rooms when they lack appropriate placements. Many of those children have been abused or suffered trauma and are already vulnerable eve...
Youth Leaving Foster Care and Homeless Youth: Ensuring Access to Health Care 24 Others, often termed throwaways, have been forced out of their homes, some explicitly excludedby others become homeless as a result of being orphaned o... A English 被引量: 0发表: 2006年 Palliative care for pat...
In addition to the opportunity to reveal the construction of a particular form of immigrant assimilated knowledge, this study also has the potential to contribute to sociological and public philosophy and policy research aimed at supporting the success of adult foster care homes more broadly.Jamie P...
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This study is an analysis of an immigrant Romanian family that operates an adult foster care home in a well-established community based health system in Portland, Oregon. The study utilizes categories of elder health and satisfaction identified by elders' themselves, and include: a. engaged interac...
Last October, the U.S. Department of Agricultureannouncedthat if at least 25% of students in schools and districts were enrolled in government assistance programs like food stamps or Head Start or were homeless, migrants or in foster care, the entire school or district ...