Evaluation of Administration on Aging and Conduct of White House Conference on Aging: Joint Hearings Before the Special Committee on Aging and the Subcommittee on Aging of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Ninety-second Congress, First [and Second] Session[s].

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Page 330 - To provide assistance in the development of new or improved programs to help older persons through grants to the States for community planning and services and for training, through research, development, or training project grants, and to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an operating agency to be designated as the "Administration on Aging".
Page 246 - An adequate income in retirement in accordance with the American standard of living. (2) The best possible physical and mental health which science can make available and without regard to economic status. (3...
Page 159 - National Council of Senior Citizens, and the American Association of Retired Persons...
Page 452 - In addition to the powers conferred upon an authority by other provisions of this act, an authority is empowered to borrow money or accept contributions, grants or other financial assistance from the federal government for or in aid of any housing project within its area of operation, to take over or lease or manage any housing...
Page 335 - I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
Page 278 - ... jurisdiction, and absorbed with other units of SRS Another cause for alarm arose early this year when the Administration budget request for AoA amounted to only $29.5 million, a $2.5 million reduction from the previous fiscal year. Alarmed by this and by earlier developments, the Senate Committee on Aging and the Subcommittee on Aging of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare called joint hearings on "Evaluation of the Administration on Aging and Conduct of the White House Conference...
Page 338 - Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
Page 158 - The easiest way to implement a morally repugnant but socially beneficial policy is by inaction. Under stress, the managers of postattack society would most likely resolve their problem by railing to make any special provision for the special needs of the elderly, the insane, and the chronically ill.
Page 324 - One of the recommendations of this conference was a call for all goverment and voluntary agencies to accept greater responsibility for the problems and welfare of older people in the United States.
Page 260 - If the individual is to be helped, someone has to deal with the complex of social ills that bears on the individual, not just the individual himself.

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