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Month: August 2017
Special topic guides
- State budget adoption history and procedures
- SEBAC collective bargaining agreements
- Special taxing districts
- School desegregation, including Sheff v. O’Neill
- School funding, including CCJEF v. Rell
- Indian tribal gaming compacts
- Government reorganization commissions
- Condominium law
- Service dogs
- Municipal law
- Constitutional law
- Natural disasters
Aging Reference works
Rights of Grandparents and Third Parties in Connecticut – research guide by the Judicial Branch Law Libraries
Aging Websites
State agencies
Connecticut Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity & Opportunity
Dept. of Aging and Disability Services
Dept. of Aging and Disability Services’ Long Term Care Ombudsman Program
State boards, commissions, and task forces
Connecticut Long-Term Care Planning Committee
Connecticut Partnership for Long-Term Care
Long-Term Care Advisory Council
Federal government
Administration for Community Living – includes the Administration on Aging
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Federal Interagency Forum on Aging Related Statistics
Other organizations
Connecticut Area Agencies on Aging
The Gerontological Society of America
The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University
American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging
National Adult Protective Services Association
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Other online resources
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services program statistics
Connecticut law about grandparents’ rights – research guide by the Judicial Branch Law Libraries
Connecticut law about elder abuse – research guide by the Judicial Branch Law Libraries
Connecticut law about elderly tax credits – research guide by the Judicial Branch Law Libraries
Connecticut law about powers of attorney – research guide by the Judicial Branch Law Libraries
Dept. of Social Services protective services for the elderly
Guide to elder law from CTLawHelp, a group of nonprofit legal services organizations in Connecticut
Guide to the Older Americans Act from the Administration for Community Living – summarizes the 1965 act and its most recent reauthorization in 2016.
Healthy Aging website from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – includes links to data and reports.
My Place CT, Dept. of Social Services website with information on long-term care
White House Conference on Aging final report (2015)
Aging Finding OLR Reports and more in the vertical files: index headings
For OLR Reports and other materials related to the Committee on Aging’s work, index headings include:
Elderly
Elderly Abuse
Housing – Elderly
Nursing Homes
Nutrition
Tax Exemptions – Elderly
The library assigns topical index headings to all OLR Reports and keeps hard copies of the reports organized by these index headings. Reports from 1994 to the present are in the library’s file cabinets (aka the “vertical files”) in the red-tabbed folders, as well as online in full text. Older reports are in two sets of bound volumes (one set for the 1970s, and one for 1980-1993) on the library’s shelves.
The same index headings the library uses for OLR Reports have been used to organize over 600 subject files of materials such as newspaper clippings, court decisions, press releases, pamphlets, and other resources that would be more difficult to locate if they were dispersed throughout the library’s general collection. The subject files are in the blue-tabbed folders in the file cabinets. (Many of the items in these folders have also been digitized by the library, and their electronic versions can be found in the library’s intranet catalog.)
Aging Recent OLR Reports
The Office of Legislative Research writes nonpartisan reports for legislators on various topics. Recent reports related to the Committee on Aging’s subject areas include:
State Programs for Older Adults – 2023-R-0157
Enforcement and Penalties for Nursing Home Negligence – 2023-R-0132
State and Federal Programs for Individuals With Alzheimer’s Disease – 2023-R-0011
Issue Brief: Connecticut’s Assisted Living Facility Regulations – 2022-R-0269
2022 Acts Affecting Seniors – 2022-R-0118
Issue Brief: COVID-19 and Connecticut Long-Term Care Facilities – 2020-R-0320
COVID-19 Executive Orders Affecting Older Adults – 2020-R-0184
Assisted Living Facility Regulation – 2020-R-0165
Assisted Living Facility Staffing Requirements – 2020-R-0067
Connecticut COVID-19 Recovery Facilities – 2020-R-0157