AgingU.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 |
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Page 12 - me as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows : SECTION 1. (a) There is hereby established the President's Council on Aging (hereinafter referred to as the "Council'.'). (b) The Council shall be composed of the Secretary of Health. Education, and Welfare, who shall be Chairman, the Secretary
Page 12 - several Federal departments and agencies having programs relating to the aging. SEC. 3. (a) Consonant with law, each department or. agency represented on the Council shall, as may be necessary for the effectuation of the purpose of this order, furnish assistance to the Council in accordance with Section 214 of the Act of May 3, 1945, 59 Stat 134 (31U.SC691).
Page 15 - Lord, Thou knowest better than 1 know myself that I am growing older, and will some day be old. Keep me from getting talkative, and particularly from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion. Release me from craving to try to straighten out everybody's affairs. Keep my mind free from the recital of endless
Page 14 - the seven projects participating in the Ford Foundation financed "Study of Community Organization for the Elderly," coordinated by the Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare at Brandéis University, and
Page 10 - the seven projects participating in the Ford Foundation financed, "Study of Community Organization for the Elderly," coordinated by the Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare at Brandéis University, and
Page 2 - of each citizen to prepare himself to become and resolve to remain active, alert, capable, self-supporting and useful so long as health and circumstances permit and to plan for ultimate retirement. 2. to learn and apply sound principles of physical and mental health. 3. to seek and develop potential avenues of service in the years after retirement.
Page 8 - demonstrations are knit together by a small research staff located at the Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare. Brandéis University, and a panel of three consultant-observers who
Page 13 - Old men need a vision, not only recreation. Old men need a dream, not only a memory. It takes three things to attain a sense of significant being: • God • A Soul • A Moment. The three are always here. Just to be is a blessing, just to live is holy.
Page 12 - than most people realize. At one level they are providing technical solutions for important human problems. But at a deeper level they are changing the conception of human nature—our fundamental ideas about human desires and human possibilities. When such conceptions change, society changes.
Page 2 - to seek and develop potential avenues of service in the years after retirement. 4. to make available the benefits of his experience and knowledge. 5. to endeavor to make himself adaptable to the changes added years will bring.