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June 2007

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• Director's Notebook: The "Coming" Health Care Workforce Shortage is Here Now
  Just as our need for health care workers is growing, the nation is facing a health care worker shortage. With one of the nation's largest populations of older citizens, Ohio is certainly part of this national trend.
• PASSPORT Program Found to Be Cost-Effective, Consumer-Responsive
  Scripps Gerontology Center released the findings of its independent evaluation of Ohio's Medicaid home and community-based care program.
• PASSPORT Consumers Overwhelmingly Satisfied with Program
  The Department of Aging, working with 13 PASSPORT Administrative Agencies, surveyed more than 2,400 PASSPORT consumers on their overall satisfaction with the Medicaid home care program. The majority of consumers are very pleased with the services they are receiving.
• Farmers' Markets and Older Ohioans - Growing Healthy Together
  Farmers' markets have a variety of qualities that make them particularly appealing to older consumers.
• Cost of Caring for People with Alzheimer's Worldwide Jumps
  The "graying of the world" pushed up the cost of caring for the six million-plus Americans with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia to an estimated $76 billion in 2005.
• How to Beat the Summer Heat
  Extreme heat and humidity is particularly dangerous for vulnerable populations, such as older adults, the very young, the homeless and persons with physical and mental impairments.To ease the effects of summer heat, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency offers tips about what to do - and what not to do - when the weather turns steamy.

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