California Health and Safety Code

§ 1570.2

HSC § 1570.2 Effective Jan 1, 2009Div. 2 · Ch. 3.3 · Art. 1

Statute text

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that there exists a pattern of overutilization of long-term institutional care for elderly persons or adults with disabilities, and that there is an urgent need to establish and to continue a community-based system of quality adult day health care which will enable elderly persons or adults with disabilities to maintain maximum independence. While recognizing that there continues to be a substantial need for facilities providing custodial care, overreliance on this type of care has proven to be a costly panacea in both financial and human terms, often traumatic, and destructive of continuing family relationships and the capacity for independent living. It is, therefore, the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter and related provisions to provide for the development of policies and programs that will accomplish the following:

(a)Ensure that elderly persons and adults with disabilities are not institutionalized inappropriately or prematurely.

(b)Provide a viable alternative to institutionalization for those elderly persons and adults with disabilities who are capable of living at home with the aid of appropriate health care or rehabilitative and social services.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 648, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2009.