LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE UNITED STATES SENATE EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION 43350 PART 3. PITTSBURGH, PA. OCTOBER 23, 1959 Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1960 SUBCOMMITTEE ON PROBLEMS OF THE AGED AND AGING JOHN F. KENNEDY, Massachusetts EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN, Illinois SIDNEY SPECTOR, Staff Director II Bergman, Sidney, executive director, Montefiore Hospital, Pittsburgh.. Block, Harry, secretary-treasurer, Pennsylvania CIO Council.. de Benneville, Mrs. Alice K., executive director, Visiting Nurse Associa- 705 Prepared statement__ 703 Fulton, Hon. James G., a Congressman from Pennsylvania, prepared 742 Page Marguriet, Daniel, president, district council No. 6, VERMWA, Swissvale, 751 Miller, Mrs. Gilbert, director, senior citizens program, Irene Kaufman 736 Prepared statement.. 735 Moorhead, Hon. William S., a Congressman from the State of Pennsylvania__ 580 Prepared statement.. 585 Moss, Celia A., director, home care program, Montefiore Hospital, prepared statement. 708 Naylon, Mrs. Lilly E., Pennsylvania Nurses Association.. 700 Prepared statement.. 696 O'Brien, James C., assistant to the chairman, Committee on Retired 730 Pine, Mrs. Lora B., assistant executive director, Allegheny County Board of Public Assistance, Pittsburgh_. 684 Prepared statement- 683 Pollak, Otto, professor of sociology, University of Pennsylvania, prepared statement. 745 Rothman, Mrs. Samuel, president, National Council of Jewish Women, prepared statement. 749 Shirk, Elliott M., executive director, Pennsylvania Fair Employment 653 Prepared statement_ 655 Stetin, Sol, vice president, Textile Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO.. 693 690 Trinkaus, G. B., manager, group department, Aetna Life Insurance Co., 762 Tronzo, Alfred L., administrator, Housing Authority of City of Pittsburgh_ 588 593 Waldman, Arthur, executive director, Home for the Jewish Aged, Philadelphia, Pa. AGED AND AGING IN THE UNITED STATES FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1959 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON PROBLEMS OF THE AGED AND AGING OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE, Pittsburgh, Pa. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a.m., in city council chamber, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, Pa., Senator Joseph S. Clark presiding. Present: Senator Clark, presiding. Subcommittee staff member present: Sidney Spector, staff director. Committee staff member present: Raymond Hurley, minority professional staff member. Also present: James Sundquist, administrative assistant to Senator Clark, Irma Ehrman, assistant to Senator Clark. Senator CLARK. The subcommittee will be in session. This is the second grassroots hearing of the Subcommittee on the Problems of the Aged and Aging. Its chairman is Senator Pat McNamara, of Detroit, Mich. I am a member of the subcommittee, and in somewhat of a share-the-wealth movement we are splitting the duties among the members. It was my good fortune to be called on to preside at this Pennsylvania hearing of the subcommittee. The first of these grassroots hearings was held in Boston earlier this year. We will continue on our tour in at least five other cities. Early next year we will report our findings and recommendations to the Senate, and I hope that these recommendations will be strong enough and specific enough to bring about some of the legislative action that is so obviously needed. I think I should interpolate to say that the investigations of the committee to date show a very great need for more effective action at both the local and the State level, and that the problems of the aged and the aging certainly cannot be solved in their entirety without the cooperation not only of all levels of government, but also of private agencies and private charities. Congress has devoted much time and thought to programs that greatly affect our older citizens-social security, veterans' pensions, old-age assistance, and more recently, housing. But this subcommittee is the first body in the history of the Congress to undertake a study of all of the problems that beset older persons. I hope that these hearings will get us out of the talk stage and into the action stage on many of these problems that have already been thoroughly discussed and analyzed. In 1900, 4 percent of our population were over 65. Today, the proportion is 8.6 percent. By 1975, there will be 20 million persons over 65, compared with 152 million now. |