Action for the Aged and Aging: A ReportU.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 - 303 pages |
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... answers to needs attests to its role in partially filling a national vacuum . But what has been accomplished to date primarily delineates the magnitude and nature of the problems of America's senior citizens— problems which will ...
... answers to needs attests to its role in partially filling a national vacuum . But what has been accomplished to date primarily delineates the magnitude and nature of the problems of America's senior citizens— problems which will ...
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... answer . After basic treatment in a hospital , the aged person might need only skilled nursing care in a qualified nursing home , or rehabilitative care in his own home or in an outpatient facility . Unless there are such alterna- tives ...
... answer . After basic treatment in a hospital , the aged person might need only skilled nursing care in a qualified nursing home , or rehabilitative care in his own home or in an outpatient facility . Unless there are such alterna- tives ...
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... answer many of the questions of concern to the subcommittee . We strongly urge that steps be taken to remedy this.3 PROPOSALS TO RELIEVE THE INCOME PROBLEM Among the major alternatives , not mutually exclusive , suggested for tackling ...
... answer many of the questions of concern to the subcommittee . We strongly urge that steps be taken to remedy this.3 PROPOSALS TO RELIEVE THE INCOME PROBLEM Among the major alternatives , not mutually exclusive , suggested for tackling ...
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... answers for future generations of retirees in our Nation , of course , is an overall economic and employment growth policy and program that would make possible , in an effective manner , financial preparation for retirement during the ...
... answers for future generations of retirees in our Nation , of course , is an overall economic and employment growth policy and program that would make possible , in an effective manner , financial preparation for retirement during the ...
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... answers to these questions lie largely in the fields of the social sciences , or in what is rapidly coming to be known as the field of social gerontology . Answers are dependent in part , of course , on the physi- ological and health or ...
... answers to these questions lie largely in the fields of the social sciences , or in what is rapidly coming to be known as the field of social gerontology . Answers are dependent in part , of course , on the physi- ological and health or ...
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87TH CONGRESS activity adequate Administration aged and aging agencies aging research amount aspects of aging believe biological Bureau of Older centers chronic costs Department of Health disease Education elderly encouraged establishment existing Institutes expenditures field of aging financing geriatrics gerontological research governmental hospital increase individual Institute of Gerontology Institutes of Health Insurance Trust Fund interest Internal Revenue Code investigators investments in aging Labor large block grants long-range investments major medical-biological research ment National Institute National Science Foundation Number of persons Office of Aging old-age Old-Age and Survivors older persons organizations payments Peptic ulcer percent personnel policy research present private foundations problems of aging question recommendations research grant research on aging retirement scientific scientists Secretary senescence senior citizens social science social science research Social Security Social Security Administration social welfare research specific subcommittee subsection tion United University workers
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Page 117 - Bureau shall investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
Page 29 - EMPLOYMENT ACT OF 1946, AS AMENDED, WITH RELATED LAWS (60 Stat. 23) [PUBLIC LAW 304— 79TH CONGRESS] AN ACT To declare a national policy on employment, production, and purchasing power, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SHORT TITLE SECTION 1 . This Act may be cited as the "Employment Act of 1946".
Page 36 - Federal share" for any State shall be 100 per centum less the State percentage and the State percentage shall be that percentage which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the per capita income of such State bears to the per capita income of the continental United States (excluding Alaska), except that (1) the Federal share...
Page 36 - Welfare, but not exceeding $50 per diem, including travel time, and while away from their homes or regular places of business they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law (5 USC 73b-2) for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.
Page 35 - ... (5) provide such methods of administration (including methods relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards on a merit basis, except that the Secretary shall exercise no authority with respect to the selection, tenure of office, and compensation of any individual employed in accordance with such methods) as are found by the Secretary to be necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the plan...
Page 21 - Each appointed member shall hold office for a term of four years, except that any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of such term, and except that...
Page 35 - State agency will make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Secretary may from time to time require, and comply with such provisions as he may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports...
Page 31 - For purposes of paragraph (1), an individual shall be considered to be disabled if he is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or to be of longcontinued and indefinite duration.
Page 37 - ... as may be determined by the Secretary ; and shall be made on such conditions as the Secretary finds necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.
Page 23 - Treasury of the taxes, specified in the preceding sentence, paid to or deposited into the Treasury ; and proper adjustments shall be made in amounts subsequently transferred to the extent prior estimates were in excess of or were less than the taxes specified in such sentence.