Title WIC, California Welf. & Inst. Code

It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that older adults and adults with functional impairments receive needed services that will enable them to maintain the maximum independence permitted by their functional ability and remain in their own home or communities for as long …

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The purpose of the Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program is to provide Medicare beneficiaries and those imminent of becoming eligible for Medicare with counseling and advocacy as to Medicare, private heal…

(a) The California Department of Aging shall assess annually a fee of not less than one dollar and forty cents ($1.40), but not more than one dollar and sixty-five cents ($1.65), on a health care service plan for each person enrolled in a health care service plan as of December 3…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of the Alzheimer’s Day Care-Resource Center Program is to provide access to specialized day care resource centers for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia-related disorders and support to their families an…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of the Brown Bag Program is to provide opportunities for sponsors and volunteers to glean through excess food stuffs that are donated, and distribute bags of food to help meet the nutritional needs of low-income older indivi…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of the Foster Grandparent Program shall be to provide personally meaningful volunteer community service opportunities to low-income older individuals through mentoring children with physical, developmental, or behavioral nee…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of the Linkages Program shall be to provide care and case management services to at-risk older individuals and adults with functional impairments with priority for enrollment given to low-income individuals, to help prevent …

(a) The purpose of the Respite Program shall be to provide temporary or periodic services for older adults with severe functional or cognitive limitations to relieve persons who are providing care, or recruitment and screening of providers and matching respite providers to client…

(a) The purpose of the Senior Companion Program shall be to provide personally meaningful volunteer community service opportunities to older adults who are low income for the benefit of adults who need assistance with activities of daily living. It is the purpose of this chapter …