S. 1028 — what changed

changed Strategy— The term Strategy means the National Family Caregiving Strategy established, maintained, and updated set forth under section 3.

changed In general— The Secretary, in consultation with the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies, shall develop, maintain, develop jointly with the Advisory Council and periodically update submit to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and the Special Committee on Aging of the Senate, the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives, and the State agencies responsible for carrying out family caregiver programs, and make publically available on the internet website of the Department of Health and Human Services, a National Family Caregiving Strategy.

changed Contents— The Strategy shall identify specific recommended actions that Federal, Federal (under existing Federal programs), State, and local governments, communities, health care, care providers, long-term services and supports and other providers, employers, and others can take are taking, or may take, to recognize and support family caregivers in a manner that reflects their diverse needs, including with respect to the following:

changed Training Information, education and other supports.training supports, referral, and care coordination, including with respect to hospice care, palliative care, and advance planning services.

changed Financial security.Delivering services based on the performance, mission, and purpose of a program while eliminating redundancies.

changed Responsibilities Duties of the Secretary— The Secretary, Secretary (or the Secretary's designee), in carrying out this section, subsection (a), shall be responsible for oversee the following:

changed Collecting and making publicly available information, submitted by the Advisory Council under section 4(d) to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and the Special Committee on Aging of the Senate, the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives, and the State agencies responsible for carrying out family caregiver programs, and made publically available by the Secretary, including evidence-based or promising practices and innovative models (both domestically domestic and internationally) foreign) regarding the provision of care by family caregivers or support for family caregivers.

changed Coordinating and assessing existing Federal Government programs and activities to recognize and support family caregivers while ensuring maximum effectiveness and avoiding unnecessary duplication.

changed Providing technical assistance, as appropriate, such as disseminating identified best practices and information sharing, sharing based on reports provided under section 4(d), to State or local efforts, as appropriate, efforts to support family caregivers.

changed not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, develop, publish, and submit to Congress the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and the Special Committee on Aging of the Senate, the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives, and the State agencies responsible for carrying out family caregiver programs, an initial Strategy incorporating the items addressed in the Advisory Council's initial report in under section 4(d)(2) 4(d) and other priority actions relevant information, including best practices, for recognizing and supporting family caregivers; and

changed not less than every 2 years, biennially update, republish, and submit to Congress the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and the Special Committee on Aging of the Senate, the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives, and the State agencies responsible for carrying out family caregiver programs the Strategy, taking into account the most recent annual report submitted under section 4(d)(1)—

changed to assess review progress based on recommendations for recognizing and supporting family caregivers in implementation of the Strategy and, based on the results of such assessment, review, recommend priority actions for improving the implementation of such implementation.recommendations, as appropriate.

changed Convening— The Secretary shall convene a Family Caregiving Advisory Council to advise and provide advice recommendations, including identified best practices, to the Secretary on recognizing and supporting family caregivers.

changed Appointed members— In addition to the Federal members under paragraph (3), the Secretary shall appoint not more than 15 voting members of the Advisory Council who are not representatives of Federal departments or agencies and who shall include at least one representative of each of the following:

changed Older adults with long-term services and supports needs, including older adults facing disparities.needs.

changed In general— Not later than 12 months after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Advisory Council shall submit to the Secretary Secretary, the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Congress Pensions and the Special Committee on Aging of the Senate, the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives, and the State agencies responsible for carrying out family caregiver programs, and make publically available on the internet website of the Department of Health and Human Services, a report concerning the development, maintenance, and updating of the Strategy and the implementation thereof, Strategy, including a description of the outcomes of the recommendations and any priorities under included in the initial report pursuant to paragraph (2), as appropriate. Such report shall be made publicly available by the Advisory Council.appropriate.

changed recommendations for priority actions—recommendations—

changed to improve and better coordinate Federal programs and activities to recognize and support family caregivers, as well as opportunities to improve the coordination of such Federal programs and activities with State programs; and

changed to effectively deliver services based on the performance, mission, and purpose of a program while eliminating redundancies redundancies, avoiding unnecessary duplication and overlap, and ensuring the needs of family caregivers are met;

changed recommendations to reduce the financial impact and other challenges identification of caregiving on challenges faced by family caregivers; caregivers, including financial, health, and other challenges, and existing approaches to address such challenges; and

changed an evaluation of how family caregiving impacts the Medicare program, and the Medicaid program, and other Federal programs.