Senior Self-Sufficiency Act - Amends Older Americans Act of 1965 to direct the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Aging to award four-year grants of up to $1 million each to eligible entities to carry out ten demonstration projects to provide specified comprehensive supportive services to older individuals in noninstitutional residences in naturally occurring retirement communities to enhance their quality of life and reduce the need to institutionalize them. Limits such grants to geographical areas considered low- or middle-income. Requires two of the grants to be awarded to entities proposing to provide such services to rural residents.
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Aug 1, 2002
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7909-7910)
Aug 1, 2002
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7908-7909)