(2) Each member of the Committee shall hold office for a term of thirty years except that (A) any member appointed to fill a vacancy occuring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of such term, and (B) the terms of office of the members first taking office shall expire, as designated by the Secretary at the time of appointment, ten at the end of the first year, ten at the end of the second year, and ten at the end of the third year after the date of appointment. (b) The Secreary may also appoint, without regard to the civil service laws, such technical advisory committees as he deems appropriate. (c) (1) Any member of a committee appointed under this section who is not a regular full-time employee of the United States shall, while attending meetings or conferences of such committee or otherwise engaged on business of such committee, be entitled to receive compensation at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary, but not exceeding $75 per diem, including travel time, and while away from his home or regular place of business he may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 73b-2) for persons in the Government service employed intermittently. (2) Any member of an advisory committee appointed under this section who is not a regular full-time employee of the United States is hereby exempted, with respect to such appointment, from the operation of sections 281, 283, and 1914 of title 18 of the United States Code, and section 190 of the Revised Statutes (5 U.S.C. 99), except as otherwise specified in paragraph (3) of this subsection. (3) The exemption granted by paragraph (2) shall not extend (A) to the receipt or payment of salary in connection with the ap pointee's Government service from any source other than the private employer of the appointee at the time of his appointment; or (B) during the period of such appointment, to the prosecution or participation in the prosecution by any person so appointed, of any claim against the Government involving any matter with which such person, during such period, is or was directly connected by reason of such appointment. ADMINISTRATION SEC. 7. In carrying out the purposes of this Act, the Secretary is authorized to provide consultative services and technical assistance to public or nonprofit private agencies, organizations, or institutions: to provide short-term training and technical instruction; to conduct research and demonstrations; and to collect, prepare, publish, and disseminate special educational or informational materials, including reports of the projects for which funds are provided under this Act. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS SEC. 8. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1963, and each of the four succeeding fiscal years the sum of $10,000,000 for carrying out sections 3 and 4 of this Act. DEFINITIONS SEC. 9. For purposes of this Act (1) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. (2) The term "nonprofit" as applied to any agency, organization, or institution means an agency, organization, or institution which is, or is owned by, one or more corporations or associations no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. Mr. BAILEY. We would like also at this time to ask if you will submit a list of the States that are now actively cooperating in the field of aged and aging. I believe there are some 35 of them. Will you submit a list of the 35 which are participating? Mr. COHEN. We will be glad to do so, Mr. Chairman. Mr. BAILEY. Is there is no objection, it will be included in the record. (The document to be supplied follows:) Official State agencies on aging as of May 1962 [Explanation of symbols: (P) set up without term; (I) given a specific period of life, usually for 1 legislative session; (L) created by legislative action; (A) created by order of the Governor] Citizens' Advisory Committee on the Governor's Commission on Aging... Commission on the Aging and Aged.......- (P) Interdepartmental Committee on Aging. Commission on Aging.. Interdepartmental Committee on Aging. Coordinating Commission on Problems Council for the Aging.. Interdepartmental Committee on Aging- Governor's Citizens Council on Aging-- North Carolina.... Governor's Coordinating Committee on (P) A ing. North Dakota... Governor's Citizens Committee on Ag- (P) ing. Commission on Aging... Interdepartmental Committee on Aging. Office for the Aging, Department of Gericulture Commission. Division on Aging.. Le islative Committee to study Prop lems of the Agin.. Governor's Committee on Aging.. Governor's State Committee on Aging--| Interdepartmental Committee on Aging. Interdepartmental Council on Aging. Citizens' Aging. Advisory Commission Governor's Council on Aging. on Interdepartmental Committee on Aging. Commission on Aging. Interdepartmental Committee on Aging. (1) (1) (1) 1 Interdepartmental committees are usually created by administrative action and are not provided with funds. Staff work is ordinarily contributed by participating agencies. Mr. COHEN. It is our opinion that one of the most compelling needs in the entire field is the need for professional and technical personnel equipped to teach courses in aging and to provide services to older people. We need teachers in colleges, universities, and professional schools to train young people for careers in teaching and research in aging and to give specialized training in aging to those preparing to enter the health, welfare, recreation, adult education, housing, and community planning professions. We have a desperate need for "generalists" in aging persons broadly knowledgeable in all aspects of aging and skilled in community planning and in stimulating agencies and organizations to action in the field. Our day-to-day, year-in, year-out experience teaches us that such generalists are badly needed at all levels-National, State, and local. The field of aging cuts across many basic disciplines—biology, biochemistry, psychology, sociology, economics, political science, to mention only some. The field of gerontology, which draws from all of these, must become identified as an important area for study, research, and teaching if we are to increase our knowledge. We should encourage institutes or gerontology in our universities staffed with personnel prepared to teach and direct research in all aspects dealing with the problems of growing old. I have indicated earlier that the special staff on aging is working hard to encourage the provision of short-term training courses to equip currently active teachers and professional personnel to extend their work into the field of aging, as well as the development of longterm teaching programs for young people just beginning their college and university training. Thus far progress has, unhappily, been appallingly slow, and we are forced to conclude that it will continue to be slow until positive steps are taken to provide the necessary incentives to action. We believe that the provision of training grants under the proposed legislation will represent a big step forward in this direction. The second major provision of the administration proposal is that the Federal Government should provide specific help for finding out and demonstrating how effective, well-coordinated programs for the aging can be set up and carried out at State and local levels. The particular, we feel that it is important to stimulate in the local communities the development of mechanisms for concerted action in meeting the needs of older people and employing their energies and talents. Programs are moving forward in most of the States and in many communities. Of this, there can be no doubt. Some of the States are achieving considerable progress in stimulating and coordinating activities and are promoting action within their local communities. By and large, however, progress is slow, halting, and uneven. And as you indicated, Mr. Chairman, there are not even any State commissions in some of these States. It is for that reason that we are recommending these local community demonstration grants. We would hope that we could give them to communities in the States where they have no commissions, in order to stimulate local interest and local concern. If we build up group of people who are interested in localities, eventually we think they will form their own State commis sion to coordinate activities in these local fields and thus provide the solid community basis which is necessary if State and local action are to be taken in cooperation with the Federal Government. It is our opinion that the most effective way to speed up action, both in the States which do have State commissions, and particularly in the States which do not have any, is to provide guidance and financial assistance on a local basis that will hasten the development of new approaches and serve to draw out local sources of support and concern. Three of the more well-to-do States California, New York and Pennsylvania, have shown that this is important by taking the leadership, and are now making State grants to local community and agencies for precisely these purposes. The action now being proposed by the administration would make this kind of assistance generally available to States, communities, nonprofit agencies and organizations, and individuals prepared to make use of it. It would provide grants for community planning, research, demonstration, and evaluation which would enable recipients to carry out projects designed to accomplish one or more of the desired objectives. This learning by planning and doing would, we think, bring progress in the development of techniques and methods to improve the lot of older people, and would serve to help us indicate what we ought to do more in the future, as a result of finding out what people and localities really feel needs to be done. The types of project we have in mind, financed under this additional legislation, would be new and would not duplicate those now supported by the Social Security Administration, the Public Health Service, the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, the Department of Labor, the Housing and Home Finance Agency, or other established programs. Rather, they would be designed to round out and integrate the forward-looking programs being developed under these auspices. Some of the kinds of projects we envision are: Demonstrations in total State and community planning and coordination of services for older people, which would involve bringing together all of the Federal, State, local, and nonprofit agencies in a community in the State to deal more effectively with what people think are their needs in that community or State. Comprehensive information, referral, and counseling services in local communities to assist older people with their complex problems of employment, economic dependency, need for social relationships, finding appropriate medical care, legal advice, securing housing best suited to their special requirements, vocational guidance, and personal adjustment. This point that in many communities there is not an adequate referral or counseling service is certainly one that ought to be looked into. Development of experimental models of senior activity center programs. The purpose would be to discover the most effective methods of enabling older people to pursue interests and activities which will lead to satisfaction and fulfillment in their later years. Experiments aimed at developing techniques for providing a range of required services to older people in small towns and rural areas that cannot afford the many kinds of facilities usually available in urban centers. 87006-62-pt. 1-33 Experimental projects to try to find out what living arrangements and environmental settings can best enable older people to live as full participants in society and contributing members to it. Wide-range experiments in the development of projects through which older people can employ their energies in serving others and their communities through voluntary effort. Recruitment of older people to assist homebound aged persons through home-help services, meals delivered to the home, assistance in shopping, occupational therapy, friendly visiting, reading, and letterwriting for the handicapped. This whole area of developing volunteers, and particuarly volunteers among other you might say the younger aged group-to work in their communities, to help some of these people who are homebound, and who have other problems, is an area that I think a lot could be done in. Experimental projects in providing part-time work. Some of the aged do want to work, but of course they do not want to work full time, and special projects that could be organized in communities in which older people could work part time need to be experimented with. The training and placement of older persons as helpers to schoolteachers, recreation workers, and mothers with small children, particularly, for instance, in connection with both the problems of day care and juvenile delinquency I think have not been fully explored, and would offer an opportunity to the local community for some experimentation. Experiments in the provision of social and recreational services. in senior housing projects and other areas in which there are high concentrations of older persons. Well, these represent, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee, just some ideas that are possible to experiment with through these projects by the States and the local communities to indicate during the next few years where we might go. We believe this legislation that I have talked about is extremely important, and we certainly recommend it to your careful scrutiny, and hope that it can be passed. In closing, we want to say again that the Department and the administration are pledged to make every effort possible in behalf of aging people. We want each piece of legislation to do the job that needs to be done and each dollar to be spent where it will count most. The legislation which the President has submitted meets these demands. The action we have taken to strengthen the special staff on aging will enable it to do a far better job of stimulating, guiding, and supporting action at all levels. The President's action in setting up a President's Council on Aging by Executive order will give much greater strength to the functions of review, coordination, and policy development as well as visibility within the entire Federal structure. These actions, Mr. Chairman, we hope will demonstrate to you and to your committee that this administration will continue to give full attention to the needs of our older people. Mr. BAILEY. Dr. Cohen, I have a couple of questions, but I am going to defer them, because I am sure the other members of the subcom |