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APPENDIX I

QUESTIONNAIRE ON RESEARCH IN AGING

APPENDIX I

The following persons received and answered the questionnaire below sent by the subcommittee, dealing with a number of items on problems of research in the field of aging, which form the basis of a large part of this report's chapter on research. The text of the letter and replies to it follow:

DEAR

U.S. SENATE,

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON PROBLEMS OF THE AGED AND AGING, August 12, 1960.

The staff of the Senate Subcommittee on Problems of the Aged and Aging is conducting a study of research in the field of aging, and this letter is being sent to you in the hope that you might contribute your views and knowledge concerning any or all of the specific items in which we are interested.

Your responses will be incorporated in a Senate report on the subject of research in aging, either in verbatim or paraphrased form. Please feel free to indicate whether or not you prefer your remarks to be identified as to their source.

A major purpose of this type of inquiry is to determine (a) whether the degree and structure of governmental research activity-both intramural and grant programs in the field of aging is currently adequate, in the judgment of experts; (b) the practical applicability of specific research findings for the improvement of the physical and social status of the aged; and (c) suggestions for any needed changes in the directions now being taken in gerontological and geriatric research and in the types of financial investment.

We would appreciate your views, in as much detail as you prefer, on these broad topics. More specifically, we are interested further in answers to the following questions:

1. To what extent, if any, is there an imbalance in amounts being spent on medical-biological research on aging as over against social science research? 2. Is there a need for improving the governmental procedure of grants and public_investments in aging research? If so, how might this be improved? 3. How much should be expended on "policy research"?

4. Should large block grants be encouraged?

5. Are you satisfied with the nature and composition of research grant and study awards committees?

6. Should the Government promote long-range investments in research, in distinction to private foundation promotion? What should be the relationship between governmental and private foundation investments in aging research? 7. Is aging research such a new and emerging area that financing and encouragement for researchers in this field need special attention?

8. Considering the amounts now spent on aging, how much should be invested in aging research as such, over the next 10 years? Is there some measure of financial investment which you might recommend?

9. Is there a need to support social welfare research on aging?

10. Should there be a National Institute of Gerontology? If yes, should it come under the existing Institutes of Health or some other structural form? If no, should each of the existing Institutes under the National Institutes of Health have an aging section? How may we avoid any entangling problems involved under either approach?

We hope that it will be possible to receive your answers to any or all of these questions by September 15. In the meantime we would appreciate acknowledgment of this letter and an indication of your willingness to participate in our inquiry.

Please feel free to express any views you might have on topics not dealt with in the above list of questions, but which you feel should be brought to the attention of the subcommittee. You may also wish to discuss them with those of your colleagues who may be interested in this field and who might wish to respond separately.

Cordially,

SIDNEY SPECTOR, Staff Director.

NOVEMBER 21, 1960.

Prof. Chester Alexander, Westminster College, Fulton, Mo. Dr. John E. Anderson, Institute of Child Development and Welfare, University of Minnesota.

Dr. Warren Andrew, chairman, Department of Anatomy, Medical Center, Indiana University.

E. Everett Ashley 3d, Director, Statistical Reports and Development Branch, Housing and Home Finance Agency, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Henry H. Banks, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston.

Solomon Barkin, director of research, Textile Workers Union of America, New York City.

Prof. Belle Boone Beard, Division of Social Studies, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Va.

Dr. Howard B. Bensusan, the Benjamin Rose Hospital, Cleveland.

Prof. Geoffrey H. Bourne, Division of Basic Health Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.

Prof. L. L. Boyarsky, Medical Center, College of Medicine, Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky.

Dr. Clark E. Brown, the Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia.

Dr. Ernest W. Burgess, professor emeritus of sociology, the University of Chicago. Dr. Ewald W. Busse, director, Center for the Study of Aging, Duke University, Durham, N.C.

Dr. Earl O. Butcher, chairman, Department of Anatomy, College of Dentistry, New York University.

Dr. R. J. Carabasi, Scott and White Clinic, Temple, Tex.

Prof. Wilbur Cohen, School of Social Work, Frieze Building, University of Michigan.

Eugene A. Confrey, Division of Public Health Methods, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Fred Cottrell, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Dr. E. Vincent Cowdry, chairman, Medical and Scientific Committee, the Institute for Advanced Learning in the Medical Sciences, City of Hope, Duarte, Calif.

Dr. Jackson T. Crane, professor and chairman, Department of Pathology, University of Oregon Medical School.

Dr. Sears Crowell, associate professor, Department of Zoology, Indiana
University.
Dr. Michael M. Dacso, F.A.C.P., director and associate professor, New York
University Bellevue Medical Center, Department of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation, Goldwater Memorial Hospital, Welfare Island, New York City.
Dr. Wilma Donahue, chairman, Institute for Human Adjustment-Division of
Gerontology, the Univeristy of Michigan.

Dr. H. H. Draper, associate professor of animal nutrition, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois.

Dr. G. L. Freeman, executive director, the American Life Foundation, New York City.

Dr. R. W. Gerard, director of laboratories, Mental Health Research Institute, the University of Michigan.

Dr. Bentley Glass, Mergenthaler Laboratory for Biology, the Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Leontine Goldschmidt, senior research scientist, Creedmore State Hospital, Jamaica, N. Y.

Dr. Marcus S. Goldstein, public health research analyst, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D.C.

Prof. Sidney Goldstein, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, R.I.

Dr. Margaret S. Gordon, associate director, Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California.

Alexander Grendon, coordinator, Office of Atomic Energy Development and Radiation Protection, Office of Governor of California.

Dr. Gerald J. Gruman, assistant professor, Institute of the History of Medicine, the John Hopkins University.

Dr. Ward C. Halstead, professor, director of medical psychology, the University of Chicago.

Dr. Albert V. Hardy, assistant State health officer, Florida State Board of Health.

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