Future of the Rural Elderly: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, June 13, 1988, Pittsburg, KansasU.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 - 88 lappuses |
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adequate Agency on Aging Aging Field Hearing assistance Bill BOB WHITTAKER Chaney COMMITTEE ON AGING concern Cooperative cost developed Director Division of Assets DONAHUE elderly population Family Physicians Family Practice Residency Federal geriatrics health care services health services Hills Area Agency home health home sharing housing in-home income increasing Institute for Rural Iowa Hospital Association Ivor Jones Kansas School Linn County long-term Medicaid Medicare Medicine meet Mental Health Center Monda National Institute nursing home Older Americans Act older persons Pat Donahue payment percent Pittsburg State University Practice Residency Training problems reimbursement REMMERS Republic County Residency Training Program retirement Riley County Ron Beane rural America rural areas rural elderly Rural Health Policy rural hospitals rural residents School of Medicine-Wichita SELECT COMMITTEE Senate senior citizens service providers social security social services specialty SPOOL testimony Thank transportation University of Kansas WHITTAKER
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