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Standard Assurances to Comply with Older Americans Act <br />Requirements for Regarding Client Rights <br />For <br />Agencies Providing In -Home Services through the <br />Home and Community Care Block Grant for Older Adults <br />As a provider of one or more of the services listed below, our agency agrees to notify all Home and Community Care Block Grant Clients <br />receiving any of the below listed services provided by this agency of their rights as a service recipient. Services included in this assurance: <br />-In -Home Aide <br />-Home Care (home health) <br />-Adult Day Care or Adult Day Health Care <br />Notification will include, at a minimum, an oral review of the information outlined below as well as providing each service recipient with a <br />copy of the information in written form. In addition, providers of in -home services will establish a procedure document that client rights <br />information has been discussed with in -home services clients (e.g. copy of signed Client Bill of Rights statement). <br />Client Rights informaiton to be communicated to service recipients will include, at a minimum, the right to: <br />-be fully informed, in advance, about each in -home service tc <br />service(s) that may affect the well -being of the participant; <br />- participate in planning and changing any in -home service provided unless the client is adjudicated <br />incompetent; <br />-voice a grievance with respect to service that is or fails to be provided, without discrimination or <br />reprisal as a result of voicing a grievance <br />- confidentiality of records relating to the individual; <br />-have property treated with respect; and <br />-be fully informed both orally and in writing in advance of receiving an in -home service, of the <br />individual's rights and obligations <br />Client Rights will be distributed to, and discussed with, each new client receiving one or more of the above listed services prior to the <br />on -set of service. For all existing clients, the above information will be provided no later than the next regularly scheduled service reassessment. <br />Agency Name: Cabarrus County Department of Aging <br />Name of Agency Administrator: Michael L. Murphy, Director of Aging Services <br />Attachment number 1 <br />F -1 Page 88 <br />