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General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 19A Department of Elder Affairs.
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- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment; secretary, powers and duties - Chapter 19A, Section 1
There shall be a department of elder affairs, in this chapter called the department, which shall be under the supervision and control of a secretary...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Offices of administration and of program planning and management; assistant secretaries - Chapter 19A, Section 2
There shall be in the department an office of administration and an office of program planning and management, each under the supervision of an assistant...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Divisions and administrative units; directors; description of organization, filing - Chapter 19A, Section 3
The secretary may from time to time, subject to appropriation, establish within the department such divisions and such administrative units within such divisions as may...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Home care program; needs and services of adult handicapped; powers and duties of secretary - Chapter 19A, Section 4
The department shall be the principal agency of the commonwealth to mobilize the human, physical, and financial resources available to plan, develop, and implement innovative...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sliding fee scale for home care services; financial eligibility limits - Chapter 19A, Section 4A
The department shall establish a sliding fee scale to provide home care services for certain persons whose income exceeds the limits established under Title XX...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Aging services access points. - Chapter 19A, Section 4B
The department shall manage the home care program established in section 4 with respect to clinical screening, service authorization activities and case management for Medicaid...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pharmacy outreach program; medication, education and intervention resource center; executive office of elder affairs - Chapter 19A, Section 4C
(a) For the purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: “Eligible person”, a resident of the commonwealth at the time...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Citizen advisory boards - Chapter 19A, Section 5
The secretary may appoint from time to time, such citizen advisory boards as he deems appropriate and necessary. Said citizen advisory boards shall advise and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations - Chapter 19A, Section 6
The secretary shall make, and from time to time revise, regulations for the conduct of the business of the department and such other regulations as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acceptance of gifts or grants - Chapter 19A, Section 7
The secretary may accept on behalf of the commonwealth any gifts or grants of money or property, whether real or personal, from any source, whether...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Employees; appointments and removal; age restriction - Chapter 19A, Section 8
The secretary, subject to appropriation, shall appoint and may remove all employees in the department. Unless otherwise provided by law, all such appointments and removals...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Experts and technical consultants; appointment - Chapter 19A, Section 9
Subject to appropriation, the secretary may, without regard to chapter thirty-one, but subject to the approval of the governor, appoint such experts and technical consultants...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Civil service status or tenure of employees - Chapter 19A, Section 10
If an employee serving in a position which is classified under chapter thirty-one or in which he has tenure by reason of section nine A...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Interagency cooperation. - Chapter 19A, Section 11
The department shall collaborate with the department of housing and community development in the location, design, construction and management of housing built for the elderly...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Biennial evaluations of programs and projects; standards, restriction; publication of summaries; annual report - Chapter 19A, Section 12
The secretary shall measure and evaluate the impact of all programs authorized by this chapter, their effectiveness in achieving stated goals in general, and in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Elder service corps - Chapter 19A, Section 13
[ Text of section effective until November 27, 2007. Repealed by 2007, 192, Sec. 3.]There is hereby created an elder service corps to be composed...
Abuse of Elderly Persons
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to secs. 14 to 26 - Chapter 19A, Section 14
For the purposes of sections fourteen to twenty-six, inclusive, the following words and terms shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meaning: “Abuse”,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of abuse; liability - Chapter 19A, Section 15
(a) Any physician, physician assistant, medical intern, dentist, nurse, family counselor, probation officer, social worker, policeman, firefighter, emergency medical technician, licensed psychologist, coroner, registered physical...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Protective services system - Chapter 19A, Section 16
[ Subsection (a) effective until July 8, 2008. For text effective July 8, 2008, see below.](a) Subject to appropriation, the department shall develop a coordinated...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Protective services agencies; authorized activities - Chapter 19A, Section 17
A protective services agency is authorized: (1) to receive and investigate reports of abuse; (2) to furnish protective services to an elderly person with his...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assessment and evaluation of reports; investigations; arrangement for protective services - Chapter 19A, Section 18
(a) The department or its designated agency shall assess and evaluate the information reported pursuant to the provisions of section fifteen. Such assessment shall include...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Consent to protective services; interference with provision of services - Chapter 19A, Section 19
(a) Any elderly person who requests or affirmatively consents to the receipt of protective services may receive said services. If the person withdraws or refuses...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Lack of capacity to consent to protective services; hearings; emergency orders; placement or commitment - Chapter 19A, Section 20
(a) If the department or its designated agency has reasonable cause to believe that an elderly person is suffering from abuse and lacks the capacity...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Geriatric evaluation process - Chapter 19A, Section 21
(a) Subject to appropriation, the department shall establish a geriatric evaluation process for the purpose of conducting a comprehensive physical, mental, or social evaluation of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Financial eligibility guidelines; reimbursements by elderly persons - Chapter 19A, Section 22
The department shall establish, by regulation, financial eligibility guidelines which provide a procedure for reimbursement by elderly persons for all or part of cost of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Records; disclosure; destruction; regulations; penalties - Chapter 19A, Section 23
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, all records containing personal data which are created, collected, used, maintained or disseminated pursuant to this chapter...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reports - Chapter 19A, Section 24
Within one hundred and twenty days following the end of each fiscal year, the department shall submit a report to the governor, the general court...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 19A, Section 25
The secretary shall adopt and from time to time revise rules and regulations for the implementation of the provisions of sections fifteen to twenty-four, inclusive.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and responsibilities of other departments or agencies - Chapter 19A, Section 26
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to be a limitation of the powers and responsibilities assigned by law to other departments or agencies.
Ombudsman Program
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to secs. 27 to 35 - Chapter 19A, Section 27
For the purpose of sections twenty-seven to thirty-five, inclusive, the following words and terms shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Act”,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Long term care ombudsman program; director - Chapter 19A, Section 28
The secretary shall, subject to appropriation or the receipt of federal funds, establish a statewide long term care ombudsman program for the purpose of advocating...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Access to consenting residents; purpose of visit - Chapter 19A, Section 29
Any person employed by or associated with the ombudsman or any designated local ombudsman program, or representative of a community group offering legal services or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Access to facility by ombudsman or designee; purpose; access to residents' records - Chapter 19A, Section 30
The state nursing home ombudsman or his designee, as defined in section twenty-seven, shall have the right of entry into long term care facilities at...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Residents' records; confidentiality; investigations; notice of actions and findings; notice of abuse - Chapter 19A, Section 31
The secretary shall establish procedures to protect the confidentiality of residents’ records and files. Such procedures shall meet the following requirements: (1) no information or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Complaints; investigation and resolution; contracts with local programs - Chapter 19A, Section 32
The ombudsman shall contract with a local ombudsman program to act on behalf of the ombudsman or his designee in the receipt, investigation and resolution...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Ombudsman; duties - Chapter 19A, Section 33
In order to insure that the goals of the ombudsman program are met the ombudsman shall:— (a) establish and conduct a training program for persons...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Liability of ombudsmen; willful interference with duties; retaliation - Chapter 19A, Section 33A
Neither the state long term care ombudsman, or his designees, any employee of a designated local ombudsman program working directly for such designee, nor any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 19A, Section 34
The secretary shall promulgate and, from time to time, revise rules and regulations for the implementation of the nursing home ombudsman program including, but not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Construction of chapter; interagency cooperation - Chapter 19A, Section 35
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to be a limitation of the powers and responsibilities assigned by law to other departments or agencies. The...
Reverse Mortgage Proceeds
Hot Lunch Program
Liability of Counselors and Coordinators
- Massachusetts General Laws - Liability of counselors or coordinators; description of duties and responsibilities - Chapter 19A, Section 38
No person trained and designated by the department of elder affairs as a counselor or coordinator in the serving health information needs of elders program,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Subsidized catastrophic prescription drug insurance program; department of elder affairs - Chapter 19A, Section 39
(a) For the purposes of this section and section 40, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Department,”...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prescription drug review commission; membership; recommendation. - Chapter 19A, Section 40
(a) There shall be a prescription drug review commission, hereinafter referred to as the commission, to oversee the program established in section 39. The commission...
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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