Current with changes from the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 10-1101 - Healthy Aging Program(a) There is a Healthy Aging Program in the Department.(b) The purposes of the Program are to: (1) promote healthy aging and healthy living by older adults at both the State and local levels;(2) encourage aging safely at home and in the community;(3) raise public awareness about the importance of healthy aging and aging safely for both individuals and the public at large;(4) evaluate the need for improving the quality and accessibility of existing healthy aging opportunities and services;(5) improve the quality of life and contain health care costs of older adults;(6) provide competitive funding grants to design and test programs and services that help older adults achieve healthy and safe aging and healthy living; and(7) publicly disseminate the outcomes of the grants awarded under the Program.Added by 2017 Md. Laws, Ch. 206,Sec. 1, eff. 10/1/2017.