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THE UNITED STATES
(THE COMMUNITY VIEWPOINT)

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HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON PROBLEMS OF

THE AGED AND AGING

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE

UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

PART 6.-GRAND RAPIDS

NOVEMBER 16 AND 17, 1959

Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1960

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE

LISTER HILL, Alabama, Chairman

JAMES E. MURRAY, Montana

JOHN F. KENNEDY, Massachusetts
PAT MCNAMARA, Michigan
WAYNE MORSE, Oregon

RALPH W. YARBOROUGH, Texas

JOSEPH S. CLARK, Pennsylvania

JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia

HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., New Jersey

BARRY GOLDWATER, Arizona
JOHN SHERMAN COOPER, Kentucky
EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN, Illinois
CLIFFORD P. CASE, New Jersey
JACOB K. JAVITS, New York
WINSTON L. PROUTY, Vermont

STEWART E. MCCLURE, Chief Clerk

SUBCOMMITTEE ON PROBLEMS OF THE AGED AND AGING PAT MCNAMARA, Michigan, Chairman

JOHN F. KENNEDY, Massachusetts JOSEPH S. CLARK, Pennsylvania JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia

EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN, Illinois BARRY GOLDWATER, Arizona

SIDNEY SPECTOR, Staff Director
HAROLD L. SHEPPARD, Research Director

Lyons, Barrett, administrative assistant to the director, Department of
Social Welfare, Lansing, Mich...

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Prepared statement__

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Mitchell, Frederick M., director, Employment Security Division, Michigan
Employment Security Commission, Detroit, Mich...

Prepared statement..

M. J. Clark Memorial Home, Grand Rapids, Mich., prepared statement..
Panchuk, John, general counsel, Federal Life & Casualty Co., Battle Creek,
Mich...

Prepared statement_

Phillips, Paul, executive secretary, Grand Rapids Urban League.
Prepared statement_

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Popkin, Jordan J., president, Michigan Society of Gerontology and chairman, Governor's Interdepartmental Committee on Problems of the Aging, Lansing, Mich..

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Prepared statement.

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Prescott, Rev. Roy, executive director, Kent County Council of Churches,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Prepared statement_

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Prothro, Dr. Winston, director, Grand Rapids-Kent County Health Departments

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Prepared statement.

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Rogers, Charles, assistant director, region 1-D, UAW-CIO, Muskegon,
Mich

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Scholle, August, president, Michigan State AFL-CIO, Lansing, Mich.
Prepared statement_

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Stehman, Dr. Vernon, director, Department of Mental Health, Lansing,
Mich..

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Prepared statement..

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Van Dyke, Joseph, president, Kent County AFL-CIO council, Grand
Rapids, Mich

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Prepared statement..

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Walsh, Patricia, R. N., president, Michigan State Nurses Association, prepared statement__

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Zemmer, H. B., M.D., Michigan Health Council, prepared statement_

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Articles entitled

"Diabetes and Public Health," by Albert E. Heustis, M.D., State health commissioner...

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"Medical Extern Report, June 16-August 29, 1958".

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"Public Health Looks at Michigan People Past 45," by Albert E. Heustis, M.D., M.P.H., State health commissioner

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"Some Public Health Priorities for Older People," by Albert E. Heustis, M.D., M.P.H., State health commissioner.

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"The Little Sister of the Poor," by Msgr. Giuseppe De Luca, Rome, 1950...

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Education and training plan for nursing home personnel.

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Hart, Hon. Philip A., telegram dated November 12, 1959, to Senater
McNamara..

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History Homes-for-the-aged program of the Grand Rapids Health
Department..

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Letters and telegrams:

Bowers, Joe E., administrator, Oklahoma Methodist Manor, Tulsa,
Okla., letter dated September 21, 1959, to Mr. Spector-
Kennedy, Hon. John F., telegram dated November 16, 1959, to Senator
McNamara_

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Program goals, Division of Tuberculosis and Adult Health, Michigan
Department of Health...

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Progress report on number of nursing homes and homes for the aged.. Report of the Michigan Public Health Study Commission entitled “Building Michigan's Health".

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Rules and regulations for nursing homes and homes for the aged.
Table 1.-Glaucoma screening survey, Ottawa County, May 1959-

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