Commissioners receive report on Aging and Long-Term Care

Whitman County commissioners listened May 21 to a 2017 year-end report for Aging and Long-Term Care of Eastern Washington. Lynn Campbell, executive director made the report with comments from Karen Keisseling of Pullman.

The group serves five counties in Washington with a focus to keep older people in their own homes. Kimball told the commissioners that they served 1,156 people in Whitman County last year, including $576,000 in services and $1.5 million in authorizations from Medicaid.

She said a new part of the family caregiver support program began last September and has now helped seven fam...