The Alzheimer's Disease Supportive
Services Program (ADSSP) was established under Section 398 of the
Public Health Service Act (P.L. 78-410; 42 U.S.C. 280c-3). It was
amended by the Home Health Care and Alzheimer's Disease Amendments
of 1990 (PL 101-557) and by the Health Professions Education
Partnerships Act of 1998 (PL 105-392). The ADSSP is administered by
the Administration on Aging (AoA) within the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services. The ADSSP program helps states extend
supports and services to persons with dementia and their family
caregivers, with a focus on underserved populations. The PHS Act
requires AoA to "provide for an evaluation of each demonstration
project for which a grant is made." In compliance with the PHS Act,
AoA developed a new State data collection protocol that will
require future ADSSP state grantees (those funded starting in FY
2011) to transmit semi-annual data to AoA. In December 2009, AoA
initiated a review of the current ADSSP-Data Reporting Tool
(ADSSP-DRT) to ensure the acceptability of these items for
evaluating the program and minimizing burden for respondents. This
review included experts in the field of Alzheimer's disease and
long-term care who are familiar with the program, as well as
current ADSSP grantees. Feedback was provided by phone and e-mail
over a period of 4 months. The result of this input is the revised
ADSSP-DRT and supporting documents. As with the current ADSSP-DRT,
AoA will work with ADSSP grantees to ensure easy access to a
reporting system and offer regular training in using the tool to
ensure minimal burden for program grantees.
The annual reporting burden
hour estimates have increased from 950 hours to 1410 hours for the
following reasons: o The new estimates are for 47 grantee
respondents, rather than the 38 grantee respondents from the
original ADSSP-DRT approval. o Although, for the current data set,
it was anticipated that grantee respondents would spend 25 hours
spent reporting annually, the actual number of hours spent, as
reported by the current ADSSP state grantees consulted, was 15
hours annually. o The frequency of data reporting will increase
from annually to semi-annually. The annual reporting burden for
grantees is anticipated to be 30 hours (15 twice yearly x 2). This
is likely an over-estimate because several items included in the
current tool are not included in the revised tool. Refinements have
also been made to the supporting documents in order to streamline
the data collection template and data definitions. The proposed
move from annual to semi-reporting came as a result of a
re-evaluation of the ADSSP-DRT by AoA, experts in the field of
Alzheimer's disease and long-term care, and current ADSSP state
grantees. Based on the collection experiences over the past three
years, AoA and the expert reviewers believe that more frequent data
collection would be helpful in order to comply with the
requirements of the PHS Act, for federal level advocacy and for
management of the program; all ADSSP state grantees consulted
believed that more up-to-date information would be helpful for
state-level advocacy.
$22,288
No
No
No
Uncollected
No
Uncollected
Harry Posman 2023573540
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
ADSSP Template for Data Collection (2).doc
ADSSP Data Collection Reporting Form (2).xls
Alzheimer's Disease Supportive Services Program (ADSSP) Data Collection