| The Administration on Aging is sponsoring an
effort to develop and field-test a core set of performance measures for
state and community programs on aging operating under the Older Americans
Act (OAA).
The Performance Outcomes Measures project (POMP) helps States and Area Agencies
on Aging assess their own program performance, while assisting AoA to meet
the accountability provisions of the Government Performance and Results
Act (GPRA)
and the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB)
program assessment requirements. OMB uses their Program Assessment Rating
Tool (PART)
to evaluate program performance.
The collection of timely, accurate, and comparable data is of growing
importance with GPRA, the advent of PART, and related state and local
initiatives that link continued funding to demonstrated program benefits
and outcomes. Through annual performance reports, Federal agencies provide
detailed information on their progress in meeting program performance
objectives. Congress and OMB now use performance information to support
budget decisions. Many state and local governments are requiring similar
systems of accountability to document results and justify funding.
Performance Measures Indicators
The project has been developing and refining performance measurement surveys
for the assessment of services provided under Title III of the OAA for
the past five years. The following areas have been studied under POMP
with current work under way to develop two new performance measurement
surveys for service recipients and providers.
- Caregivers
- Case Management
- Congregate Nutrition Program
- Homemaker Service
- Home Delivered Nutrition Program
- Information and Assistance Assessment
- Senior Centers
- Transportation Service
In addition, survey instruments were designed to document client characteristics.
These include physical functioning, social
functioning, emotional well-being, and demographic
information.
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