§ 3100. Aging Services Division--Duties
Oklahoma Statutes AnnotatedTitle 56. Poor Persons
56 Okl.St.Ann. § 3100
§ 3100. Aging Services Division--Duties
A. 1. The Aging Services Division of the Department of Human Services shall, in accordance with the provisions of this section and in consultation with area agencies on aging, establish a program to provide leadership for improving the quality and quantity of legal and advocacy assistance as a means of ensuring a comprehensive elder rights system for Oklahoma's vulnerable elderly.
1. Establish an Office of Elder Rights and Legal Assistance Services Development as the focal point for leadership on elder rights policy review, analysis, and advocacy at the state level, including, but not limited to, such elder rights issues as guardianship, age discrimination, pension and health benefits, insurance, consumer protection, surrogate decision-making, protective services, public benefits, and dispute resolution;
4. Provide technical assistance to area agencies on aging and legal assistance providers to enhance and monitor the quality and quantity of legal assistance to older individuals, including technical assistance in developing plans for targeting services to reach the older individual with greatest economic need and the older individual with greatest social need, with particular attention to low-income minority individuals;
a. the legal assistance initiatives provided under the Older Americans Act,1
in law schools and other institutions of higher education, and promote other methods to expand access by older individuals to legal assistance and advocacy and vulnerable elder rights protection activities;
10. For the purpose of identifying vulnerable elder rights protection activities provided by the entities under this act2 and coordinating such activities with programs established under the Older Americans Act, develop working agreements with:
Credits
Laws 2001, c. 101, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2001.
56 Okl. St. Ann. § 3100, OK ST T. 56 § 3100
Current with emergency effective legislation through Chapter 257 of the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature (2024). Some sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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