Section 135.171. Alzheimer’s disease service needs.

  1.  The department shall regularly analyze Iowa’s population by county and age to determine the existing service utilization and future service needs of persons with Alzheimer’s disease and similar forms of irreversible dementia. The analysis shall also address the availability of existing caregiver services for such needs and the appropriate service level for the future.

  2.  The department shall modify its community needs assessment activities to include questions to identify and quantify the numbers of persons with Alzheimer’s disease and similar forms of irreversible dementia at the community level.

  3.  The department shall collect data on the numbers of persons demonstrating combative behavior related to Alzheimer’s disease and similar forms of irreversible dementia. The department shall also collect data on the number of physicians and geropsychiatric units available in the state to provide treatment and services to such persons. Health care facilities that serve such persons shall provide information to the department for the purposes of the data collection required by this subsection.

  4.  The department’s implementation of the requirements of this section shall be limited to the extent of the funding appropriated or otherwise made available for the requirements.

2008 Acts, ch 1140, §1

See also §231.62