Older Americans Programs Oversight: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, August 3 and September 15, 1977U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - 190 lappuses |
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AAA's Administration on Aging agencies on aging aging network amendments area agencies assistance believe BINSTOCK CETA Chairman CLAUDE PEPPER Commissioner on Aging Committee on Aging community services Conference of Mayors CONGRESS THE LIBRARY coordination Council on Aging COUNTY DANSTEDT Department effective employment field of aging Force on Aging funds gerontology GRASSLEY Green Thumb hearings homebound housing income increase leadership legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS live mandate mandatory retirement meals medicare ment million nursing homes nutrition program OFFICE Older Americans Act older citizens older persons older workers opportunity PEPPER percent Pima County population preventicare priority problems responsibility SARASIN Seattle Select Committee senior centers senior citizens serve social services staff statement SYKES Task Force Thank tion title IX Title VII title XX transportation U.S. Conference UHLMAN urban elderly WAMPLER West Virginia
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150. lappuse - Nation are entitled to, and it is the joint and several duty and responsibility of the governments of the United States and of the several States and their political subdivisions to assist our older people to secure equal opportunity to the full and free enjoyment of the following objectives: (1) An adequate income in retirement in accordance with the American standard of living.
150. lappuse - Retirement in health, honor, dignity — after years of contribution to the economy. 7. Pursuit of meaningful activity within the widest range of civic, cultural, and recreational opportunities.
150. lappuse - Efficient community services which provide social assistance in a coordinated manner and which are readily available when needed. (9) Immediate benefit from proven research knowledge which can sustain and improve health and happiness. (10) Freedom, independence, and the free exercise of individual initiative in planning and managing their own lives.
150. lappuse - The Congress hereby finds and declares that, in keeping with the traditional American concept of the inherent dignity of the individual in our democratic society, the older people of our Nation are entitled to, and it is the joint and several duty and responsibility of the governments of the United States and of the several States and their political subdivisions to assist our older people to secure equal opportunity to the full and free enjoyment of the following objectives: (1) An adequate income...
150. lappuse - Suitable housing, independently selected, designed and located with reference to special needs and available at costs which older citizens can afford. (4) Full restorative services for those who require institutional care. (5) Opportunity for employment with no discriminatory personnel practices because of age. (6) Retirement in health, honor, dignity — after years of contribution to the economy. (7) Pursuit of meaningful activity...
95. lappuse - ... (1) secure and maintain maximum independence and dignity in a home environment for older persons capable of self-care with appropriate supportive services; and "(2) remove individual and social barriers to economic and personal independence for older persons. "DEFINITIONS "SEC. 302. For purposes of this title — "(1) The term 'social services...
96. lappuse - comprehensive and coordinated system' means a system for providing all necessary social services in a manner designed to— (A) facilitate accessibility to and utilization of all social services provided within the geographic area served by such system by any public or private agency or organization; (B) develop and make the most efficient use of social services in meeting the needs of older persons; and (C) use available resources efficiently and with a minimum of duplication.
72. lappuse - ... (8) provides that no social service will be directly provided by the State agency or an area agency on aging...
42. lappuse - A third weakness is that the bureaucratic components of the network — the public and voluntary service agencies and the universities and colleges— have quite understandably become preoccupied with sustaining and expanding the different, thinly funded program elements with which they are directly involved. Each program element has a corresponding set of bureaucratic or educational mechanisms, and each of these sets has developed its own professional organization or association. As a consequence,...
187. lappuse - ... to States and political subdivisions thereof with respect to programs for the aged and aging...