Studies of the Aged and Aging: Selected Documents, Volumes 3-5U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957 - Aging |
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... patients in chronic institutions and by the study groups , op- erating in the several States , and to report its findings to the 1955 annual meeting of the governors conference . A year later , in 1955 , the results of this study were ...
... patients in chronic institutions and by the study groups , op- erating in the several States , and to report its findings to the 1955 annual meeting of the governors conference . A year later , in 1955 , the results of this study were ...
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... patient referred to medical , surgical , or other specialists . Rehabilitation The importance of helping older people , who are disabled because of chronic illness , to " get back on their feet " came in for further dis- cussion . Much ...
... patient referred to medical , surgical , or other specialists . Rehabilitation The importance of helping older people , who are disabled because of chronic illness , to " get back on their feet " came in for further dis- cussion . Much ...
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... patients ; where to place patients when homes were closed - these were some of the questions asked , without specific solutions being advanced . And a discussion of joint responsibility of public health and welfare , departments for the ...
... patients ; where to place patients when homes were closed - these were some of the questions asked , without specific solutions being advanced . And a discussion of joint responsibility of public health and welfare , departments for the ...
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... patients , many of them could return to the community within a few days and would , it is estimated , reduce the admissions to State mental hospitals by some 60 percent . The " day - care center " for mental cases in Massachusetts , it ...
... patients , many of them could return to the community within a few days and would , it is estimated , reduce the admissions to State mental hospitals by some 60 percent . The " day - care center " for mental cases in Massachusetts , it ...
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... patient is ready to return to his home community after a period of care and treatment in a hospital . Unfortunately , it was asserted , there has been little effort to provide services of this na- ture , although the problem is within ...
... patient is ready to return to his home community after a period of care and treatment in a hospital . Unfortunately , it was asserted , there has been little effort to provide services of this na- ture , although the problem is within ...
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action activities Administration adult education aged persons aging population appointed appropriate areas benefits chairman chronic disease chronically ill commissions or committees Committee on Aging Conference on Aging cooperation coordinate Council on Aging counseling delegates Department of Health disabled economic employers established facilities Federal Council Federal Government Federal Security Agency field of aging Financing funds geriatric gerontology Governor health services hospitals housing income maintenance increasing individual institutions labor legislative legislature lems living arrangements meet Membership ment Minn National nursing homes Office old-age and survivors old-age assistance older citizens older persons older workers opportunities organization participation patients pension personnel planning problems of aging projects public assistance public health public housing public welfare Railroad Retirement Board recommendations recreation retirement Rhode Island Social Security Social Security Administration staff survivors insurance tion Veterans vocational rehabilitation
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Page 250 - Assembly concur) that the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the legislative contingent fund and made immediately available to pay the expenses of the committee, including personal service, in carrying out the provisions of this resolution. Such moneys shall be payable after audit by and upon the warrant of the Comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the chairman of the committee in the manner provided by law.
Page 249 - Any vacancy in the membership of the committee shall be filled by the officer authorized to make the original appointment. The members of the committee shall serve without compensation for their services but shall be entitled to their actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties hereunder.
Page 61 - The time has come to evaluate and coordinate their activities; to let the right hand know what the left hand is doing; to have these agencies working together.
Page 249 - Whereas the proportion of aged people in the population of our Nation is increasing rapidly, a factor bringing in its wake a...
Page 249 - Waters, is hereby created to consist of four members of the Senate to be appointed by the Temporary President of the Senate, and four members of the Assembly to be appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly...
Page 215 - The members of the commission shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as members of the commission.
Page 250 - March first, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, the results of its studies and investigations; and submit with its report such legislative proposals as it deems necessary to make its recommendations effective ; and be it further Resolved (if the Assembly concur) , That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) or so much thereof as may be necessary...
Page 265 - The commission shall elect its chairman, and vacancies occurring in the membership of the commission shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments.
Page 250 - ... and it shall have generally all the powers of a legislative committee as provided by the Legislative Law.
Page 186 - ... 9. Research, Professional Training. Older citizens should be able to expect an increase of research on the human aspects of aging and development of special courses in schools and departments of medicine, nursing, clinical psychology and social work to train professional workers in the field of aging.