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Show U.S. inspector studies plans for the elderly . By PAULA HUFF FARMINGTON U.S. Health and Human Services Inspector General James Dorsey recently spent a few days with Davis County Coun-ty officials reviewing care of the elderly in the area. Alice Johnson, director of the Council on Aging, told the boafU Tuesday Mr. Dorsey was auditing area agencies to determine if they were functioning as congress designed de-signed them. The Older American Act, which called for the organization of a Council on Aging, will be reviewed by Congress next year. Mr. Dorsey is randomly visiting the agencies across the country to compile a report re-port so Congress can assess the act. Joyce Smith, Bountiful Golden Years Center Director, said Mr. Dorsey also wanted to know how visible the Council on Aging is in the community. He also asked several elderly people where they would go if they needed help, Mrs. Smith said. Many people did not know about the nursing home ombudsman John Egan. Mr. Egan's job is to hear concerns from people about nursing homes and then to address them. In other business, the Program Committee asked the board of directors to approve gambling tours and a public guardianship service in the centers for the elderly. Serving as chairwoman for the committee, Eva Hancock said the gambling trips to Wendover and Las Vegas, Nev. should be continued con-tinued because they do many elderly elder-ly people "some good." "There are a good many people that like to get away," she said. "The trip does them some good." Mrs. Hancock said last year the Bountiful Golden Years Center sponsored 10 trips to Wendover. Throughout the year, 479 people participated in those bus trips. |
