JOHN GLENN, Ohio

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING

DAVID PRYOR, Arkansas, Chairman

BILL BRADLEY, New Jersey
QUENTIN N. BURDICK, North Dakota
J. BENNETT JOHNSTON, Louisiana
JOHN B. BREAUX, Louisiana
RICHARD C. SHELBY, Alabama
HARRY REID, Nevada
BOB GRAHAM, Florida

HERBERT H. KOHL, Wisconsin

JOHN HEINZ, Pennsylvania
WILLIAM S. COHEN, Maine
LARRY PRESSLER, South Dakota
CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa
PETE WILSON, California

PETE V. DOMENICI, New Mexico

ALAN K. SIMPSON, Wyoming

JOHN W. WARNER, Virginia

NANCY LANDON KASSEBAUM, Kansas

PORTIA PORTER MITTELMAN, Staff Director
CHRISTOPHER C. JENNINGS, Deputy Staff Director
JEFFREY R. LEWIS, Minority Staff Director

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CONTENTS

Opening statement of Senator Bill Bradley...

Mr. Philip Rubenstein, Executive Director, Ocean County Office on Aging, as

read by Ms. D. Jane Maloney, confidential aide...

Panel I: Profiles of Beneficiaries and Caregivers:

Mr. Bill Anderson, husband and caregiver of Charlotte Anderson.

Ms. Meredith Wagenblast, caregiver for mother, Beatrice Newbon

Ms. Margaret Bodrucki, mother and caregiver of daughter, Cheryl..

Ms. Ann Ferrugiaro, daughter and caregiver of her mother, Katherine......

Panel II: Providers of respite care services:

Ms. Mary Fran McFadden, Administrative Supervisor of Social Work,

Ocean County Board of Social Services......

Ms. Mary Jane Kegelman, Program Director, Independence Place of

Whiting.

Ms. Barbara Vandenberge, Executive Assistant to the Director, Visiting

Homemaker Service of Ocean County....

Panel III: Continuation and expansion of services:

Mr. Alan J. Gibbs, Commissioner of Human Services, State of New Jersey

Mr. Dudley Lesser, New Jersey State Coordinator for AARP/VOTE,

American Association of Retired Persons.....

Ms. Ruth Boer, past president, Home Health Assembly of New Jersey

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Item 1. Written testimony from the Senior Citizens United Community Serv-

ices, submitted by Donna Kovalevich, Executive Director........

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