Native American Elders Report - 1997

This report provides summary highlights on Title VI program performance, including persons served and services provided for 1995. Additionally, summary data for program performance for the years 1991-1995 are included. It was compiled from data submitted to the Administration on Aging by the Title VI grantees for the 1995 project period.

Contents

NATIVE AMERICAN ELDERS, 1991-1995

Charts: Supportive and Nutrition Services for Elder Indians - 1995

• PERCENT AND TOTAL NUMBER OF UNITS OF SUPPORTIVE AND NUTRITION SERVICES PROVIDED NATIVE AMERICAN ELDERS - TITLE VI 1995
• PERCENT AND NUMBER OF UNITS OF SUPPORTIVE SERVICES PROVIDED NATIVE AMERICAN ELDERS - TITLE VI 1995
• PERCENT AND NUMBER OF UNITS OF NUTRITION SERVICES PROVIDED NATIVE AMERICAN ELDERS - TITLE VI 1995

Tables

• Table 1
  NATIVE AMERICAN ELDERS NUMBER AND PERCENT OF UNITS OF SUPPORTIVE AND NUTRITION SERVICES PROVIDED - GRANT YEARS 1991 - 1995
• Table 2
  NATIVE AMERICAN ELDERS NUMBER AND PERCENT CHANGE IN UNITS OF SUPPORTIVE AND NUTRITION SERVICES PROVIDED GRANT YEARS 1991 - 1995

NATIVE AMERICAN ELDERS, 1991-1995

(Title VI Program Under the Older Americans Act)

Setting

This document contains results from the Nutrition and Supportive Services Programs administered by the Administration on Aging under Title VI of the Older Americans Act. Congress enacted Title VI to target funds to elder Indians after Bureau of the Census figures showed older Indians considerably worse off than other older American populations. So the Title VI Program provides additional help for elder Indians; it does not lessen States and Area Agencies on Aging responsibilities to all older Indians under other Older Americans Act Programs. This document contains six charts with 1995 data and two detailed tables covering the period 1991-1995. The figures were derived from required reports submitted by Title VI grantees.

Findings

The yearly grants the Administration on Aging awards under Title VI to Tribal organizations and the organization representing Native Hawaiians continue to ensure that essential services are provided to Native American elders, according to reports from grantees. During grant year 1995, the 228 Title VI grantees provided nearly 5.4 million Nutrition and Supportive Services under the Indian Program (Part A) and 220 thousand services under the Native Hawaiian Program (Part B - one grantee). A look by categories at the services Title VI grantees provided during grant year 1995 reveals that:

• Meals under the elder Indian Program represented more than half (51%) of the 5.4 million services provided, an increase of two percentage points over 1994 (Chart l);
• Access Services which include Information and Referral, outreach, and transportation represented the next largest proportion (28%); and
• In-Home Services such as homemaker, health aid, and chore, ranked third--making up 14% of the 5.4 million services provided under the Indian Program.
• Meals under the Native Hawaiian Program represented nearly a fifth of the 220 thousand Meals provided (19%), also increasing two percentage points over 1994 like the Indian Program (Chart 2); and
• Services other than Access and In-Home ranked first (52%).

When the Meals category is excluded:

• Access Services under the elder Indian Program represent nearly three-fifths (57%) of the remaining 2.6 million services (Supportive Services) Title VI grantees provided in 1995 (Chart 3); and
• In-Home Services represent over a fourth (28%).
• Access Services under the Native Hawaiians Program represent slightly more than a third (34%) of the 179 thousand services provided in 1995 (Chart 4); and
• Services other than Access and In-Home represent nearly two-thirds (65%).

Tables 1 and 2 show the trend in Supportive and Nutrition Services Title VI grantees provided under the elder Indian and Native Hawaiian Programs for the five-year period 1991 through 1995.

• For Supportive Services under the Indian Program, the tables reveal a drop in the number of services provided in 1995 from the previous year (2.8 vs 2.6 million).
• The number of Meals provided increased gradually each year between 1991 and 1995 (with a slight decline in 1994), ranging from 2.3 to 2.7 millions. During the same period, Home-Delivered Meals continued to comprise slightly more than half of the meals served each year.
• For Supportive Services under the Native Hawaiian Program, the number of services provided declined in 1994 and 1995 (193 thousand and 179 thousand respectively).
• The number of meals served during 1995 (slightly more than 41 thousand) was somewhat similar to the previous four years. In 1995, grantee for the Native Hawaiian Program continued to develop the In-Home Meals Program.Graphics

The attached charts and tables contain data derived from information reported by grantees of the Title VI Program. The document provides results based on unduplicated counts (Unduplicated counts represent the total number of different people served under the Nutrition and Supportive Services Programs.).

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