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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 635

essential activities of daily living, such as feeding, bathing,
grooming, dressing, or transferring.

11A.

AS A PREREQUISITE TO REGISTRATION AND RENEWAL OF
REGISTRATION FOR PROVIDERS OF SHELTERED HOUSING FOR ELDERLY, THE
OFFICE ON AGING SHALL REQUIRE EACH PROVIDER OF SHELTERED HOUSING
FOR ELDERLY WHO SUFFER FROM ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED
DISORDERS TO HAVE AN IN-SERVICE EDUCATION PROGRAM THAT INCLUDES
INSTRUCTION ON DEMENTIA AND THE TECHNIQUES NECESSARY TO MANAGE
DEMENTIA PATIENTS WITH REGARD TO THEIR PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL,
AND BEHAVIORAL MANIFESTATIONS.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1986.

Approved May 27, 1986.

CHAPTER 635

(House Bill 176)

AN ACT concerning

Department of Health and Mental Hygiene -
Instructional Unit on Dementia - Geriatric Aides Assistants

FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene to include approve an instructional unit on dementia
in the training for certain geriatric aides assistants;
providing for a certain advisory committee to assist the
Department in developing approving standards for the
instructional unit on dementia; providing for the
appointment, composition, and final report of the advisory
committee; and generally relating to an instructional unit
on dementia for geriatric aides assistants.

Preamble

WHEREAS, The Governor's Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease
and Related Disorders studied problems resulting from persons who
suffer from Alzheimer's disease and related disorders; and

WHEREAS, In its final report on June 30, 1985, the
Governor's Task Force recommended that the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene add an instructional unit on dementia to its
curriculum for training geriatric aides assistants; now,
therefore,