COMPREHENSIVE OLDER AMERICANS SERVICES

AMENDMENTS OF 1973 AND RELATED PROGRAMS

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON SELECT EDUCATION

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-FOURTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

PUBLIC LAW 93-29

AN ACT TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT

OF NEW OR IMPROVED PROGRAMS TO HELP OLDER PER-

SONS 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"

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HEARINGS HELD IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
JANUARY 30, 31; FEBRUARY 3, AND 4, 1975

Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Labor

CARL D. PERKINS, Chairman

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1975

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR

CARL D. PERKINS, Kentucky, Chairman

Adkins, Bertha S., Chairman, Federal Council on the Aging

219

Ahrens, Robert J., Director, Mayor's Office for Senior Citizens, Member

of Urban Elderly Coalition Chicago, Ill.-

193

Balzano, Michael, Director, ACTION.

264

Barton, Weldon V., director, Governmental Services, National Farmers
Union

285

Bechill, William, associate professor, School of Social Work and
Community Planning, University of Maryland..
Carstenson, Blue, president, Carstenson & Associates, accompanied
by Eleanor Slater, director, Division on Aging-Rhode Island.

Flemming, Hon. Arthur S., Commissioner, Administration on Aging,

HEW, accompanied by: Stanley B. Thomas, Assistant Secretary

for Human Development, HEW..

Gonia, Robert E., director, Top of Alabama Regional Council of

Governments, Area Agency on Aging, Chairperson of the National

Association of Area Agencies on Aging-

Hutton, William R., executive director, National Council of Senior
Citizens__

Martin John B., legislative consultant, National Retired Teachers
Association and American Association of Retired Persons, ac-
companied by: Peter Hughes, legislative representative_

Nathanson, Paul, executive director, National Senior Citizens Law

Center

330

213

Ossofsky, executive director, the National Council on the Aging.

Risenhoover, Hon. Theodore M., a Representative in Congress from

the State of Oklahoma___

317

259

Sainer, Janet S., director of programs, Aging Community Services

Society of New York...

280

Streib, Gordon F., chairman, Public Information Committee American
Gerontological Society -

226

Walker, Harry F., executive director, Commission on Aging, Maryland

president, National Association of State Units on Aging, accom-

panied by Louise Gerrard executive director, West Virginia Com-

mission on Aging, first vice president, National Association of State

Units on Aging-

Woodruff, Diana, assistant professor, psychology, Ethel Percy
Andrus Gerontology Center, Los Angeles, Calif.

140

236

Prepared statements, letters, supplemental material, etc.:

Adkins, Bertha S., Chairman, Federal Council on the Aging:

Letter from Roy L. Ash, Director, Executive Office to the

President.

223

Prepared statement of

220

Ahrens, Robert J., director, Chicago Mayor's Office for Senior

Citizens:

Prepared statement of

202

Prepared statement to the City Council Finance Committee..

"Proposed Revisions to the Older Americans Act of 1965, as

Amended," a document_

Resolution from Social Service Committee for consideration by
the Chicago Planning Council on Aging, January 30, 1975--
"Senior Citizens and the City of Chicago 1975 Budget," a report_