# Human Services (GHU)

## Title 10. Department of Aging

### Subtitle 11. Healthy Aging Program

#### Section 10-1101

(a) There is a Healthy Aging Program in the Department.

(b) The purposes of the Program are to:

  (1) promote healthy aging and healthy living by older adults at both the State and local levels;

  (2) encourage aging safely at home and in the community;

  (3) raise public awareness about the importance of healthy aging and aging safely for both individuals and the public at large;

  (4) evaluate the need for improving the quality and accessibility of existing healthy aging opportunities and services;

  (5) improve the quality of life and contain health care costs of older adults;

  (6) provide competitive funding grants to design and test programs and services that help older adults achieve healthy and safe aging and healthy living; and

  (7) publicly disseminate the outcomes of the grants awarded under the Program.

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Md. Code Ann., Hum. Servs. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)