The New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) announced it has received two significant grant awards from the Administration on Aging (AoA) to assess the quality of services provided to older New Yorkers and their caregivers, and to estimate cost savings associated with home and community based services in assisting older people to delay or avoid nursing home placement.
One award, the Advanced Performance Outcomes Measures Project (POMP), enables New York, for a fourth year, to systematically develop and refine performance outcome measures that can quantify aging network program impacts and estimate costs saving to the public funds.
The second award, the Next Generation: POMP, is a multi-year project designed to develop and prepare a toolkit for helping state and local programs to assess the quality of services, identify strategies for quality improvement, and optimize the value of outcome results. It will also build on the work of previous POMP demonstrations to continue enhancing performance measurement capability of state units on aging (SUAs), area agencies on aging (AAA), and service providers throughout the aging network.
Local partners receiving grants for the 2008 Advanced POMP demonstration include: Broome County Office for the Aging, Chautauqua County Office for the Aging, Erie County Department of Senior Services, Tompkins County Office for the Aging, and Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center. Local partners participating in the 2008 Next Generation: POMP demonstration include the Chautauqua County Office for the Aging, Erie County Department of Senior Services, Tompkins County Office for the Aging, and the Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center.
For additional information on this project, contact I-Hsin Wu, Project Director at the New York State Office for the Aging.
