SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California, Chairman CLAUDE PEPPER, Florida MATTHEW J. RINALDO, New Jersey, MARIO BIAGGI, New York Ranking Minority Member DON BONKER, Washington JOHN PAUL HAMMERSCHMIDT, Arkansas THOMAS J. DOWNEY, New York: RALPH REGULA, Ohio JAMES J. FLORIO, New Jersey NORMAN D. SHUMWAY, California HAROLD E. FORD, Tennessee OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, Maine WILLIAM J. HUGHES, New Jersey JAMES M. JEFFORDS, Vermont MARILYN LLOYD, Tennessee THOMAS J. TAUKE, Iowa STAN LUNDINE, New York GEORGE C. WORTLEY, New York MARY ROSE OAKAR, Ohio JIM COURTER, New Jersey THOMAS A. LUKEN, Ohio CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER, Rhode Island BEVERLY B. BYRON, Maryland THOMAS J. RIDGE, Pennsylvania DAN MICA, Florida JOHN MCCAIN, Arizona HENRY A. WAXMAN, California GEORGE W. GEKAS, Pennsylvania MIKE SYNAR, Oklahoma MARK D. SILJANDER, Michigan BUTLER DERRICK, South Carolina CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH, New Jersey BRUCE F. VENTO, Minnesota SHERWOOD L. BOEHLERT, New York BARNEY FRANK, Massachusetts JIM SAXTON, New Jersey TOM LANTOS, California HELEN DELICH BENTLEY, Maryland RON WYDEN, Oregon JIM LIGHTFOOT, Iowa GEO. W. CROCKETT, JR., Michigan HARRIS W. FAWELL, Illinois WILLIAM HILL BONER, Tennessee JAN MEYERS, Kansas IKE SKELTON, Missouri BEN BLAZ, Guam DENNIS M. HERTEL, Michigan PATRICK L. SWINDALL, Georgia ROBERT A. BORSKI, Pennsylvania PAUL B. HENRY, Michigan RICK BOUCHER, Virginia JIM KOLBE, Arizona BEN ERDREICH, Alabama BILL SCHUETTE, Michigan FLOYD SPENCE, South Carolina FERNANDO TORRES-GIL, Staff Director (II) CONTENTS MEMBERS' OPENING STATEMENTS Page 1 ....................................... ...................................... ................................. ................................................................................................................. .............................................................................................................. CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES Brenda Kerkey, Woodbridge, VA........... Marilyn Moon, director, Public Policy Institute, American Association of Re- John H. Pickering, J.D., chairman, American Bar Association's Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly Charles P. Sabatino, J.D., associate staff director, Commission on Legal Prob Hadley Hall, R.N., board member, National Association for Home Care........ Joan Quinn, R.N., chairwoman, National Institute on Community-based Long- term Care, National Council on Aging ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Responses by the American Association of Retired Persons .................................. .................. Appendix A: Statement of the Department of Health and Human Services....... Appendix B: Summary of State regulations on home care quality..... Appendix C: Home Health Benefits Under Medicare, by Shelah Leader, for AARP's Public Policy Institute Appendix D: Analysis of California's In-Home Support Services Program, Department of Social Services, CA. The National League for Nursing.. Edward N. Sage, on behalf of the National Association of Area Agencies |