"Delegation" allows an unlicensed homecare provider to perform specific tasks currently performed by licensed health care providers, such as nurses. Published by The National Council on Aging, Inc., this report offers highlights of a symposium which explored issues of delegation in home- and community-based settings with a variety of key stakeholders-nurses, state level policymakers, providers and consumers. It also reports the findings of a state survey on delegation, gives an overview of the legal and regulatory issues, and of the factors influencing our approach to delegation in the country today. The symposium took place in October, 1996 in Virginia and was convened by the National Institute on Consumer Directed Long-Term Services, a partnership of the National Council on Aging and the World Institute on Disability.