e Division shall:
(a) formulate plans and policies, develop a comprehensive approach, coordinate or implement programs and services to enable senior citizens to develop or maintain their full potential, skills, abilities, community participation and citizenship;

(b) extend senior citizens’ services and programs to all areas of Guam;
(c) encourage, through direct or indirect means, all senior citizens, especially those in need of assistance, guidance and motivation, to make use of existing senior citizens’ facilities, services and programs;
(d) establish a comprehensive approach to providing or making available services and programs to senior citizens taking into consideration the coordination or consolidation of existing programs and services and planning and implementing new programs and services where deemed necessary;
(e) cooperate with civic, business, fraternal and community organizations or groups which provide or sponsor programs and services beneficial to senior citizens;

(f) conduct research and disseminate information relative to senior citizens’ needs and problems;
(g) keep the Governor, the Guam Legislature, the District Commissioners and the general public informed on all major developments and achievements in senior citizens’ programs and services;

(h) be the principal agency which has general and immediate purview of senior citizens’ activities, programs,

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functions and services under the Older Americans Act and any other federal acts with the territory of Guam;

(i) initiate a program to provide for proper and appropriate housing facilities for senior citizens; and
(j) administer the senior citizens community employment program.
SOURCE: GC § 9983, as amended by P.L. 15-142 and 16-109.