Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Parts 1-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 |
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... housing project in Providence , R.I. , 283 elderly with an average age of 72 were provided health serv- ices ranging from nutritional counseling to direct and preventive serv- ices such as X - rays , immunization , diabetes detection ...
... housing project in Providence , R.I. , 283 elderly with an average age of 72 were provided health serv- ices ranging from nutritional counseling to direct and preventive serv- ices such as X - rays , immunization , diabetes detection ...
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... housing project , was not one which could help him . It would have in- capacitated him . Suppose he had tried to go to the 10 clinics . One can readily predict what would have happened . He would have become exhausted and sooner or ...
... housing project , was not one which could help him . It would have in- capacitated him . Suppose he had tried to go to the 10 clinics . One can readily predict what would have happened . He would have become exhausted and sooner or ...
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... housing project , has only recruited half of the elderly people in that institution as clients , even though every effort is made to recruit them . Senator MONDALE . In other words , the others living in the same public housing project ...
... housing project , has only recruited half of the elderly people in that institution as clients , even though every effort is made to recruit them . Senator MONDALE . In other words , the others living in the same public housing project ...
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... housing development and you say only about half of them show up despite every effort to persuade them . Have there been any efforts to go to their unit ? Dr. JAMES . Yes . A great deal of work is being done to try to bring these people ...
... housing development and you say only about half of them show up despite every effort to persuade them . Have there been any efforts to go to their unit ? Dr. JAMES . Yes . A great deal of work is being done to try to bring these people ...
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... housing project in New York City , which is a public housing project of about 10,000 or 12,000 people . There COSTS OF HEALTH SERVICES TO OLDER AMERICANS 97.
... housing project in New York City , which is a public housing project of about 10,000 or 12,000 people . There COSTS OF HEALTH SERVICES TO OLDER AMERICANS 97.
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Page 614 - For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Page 189 - ... by less than the standard error. The chances are about 95 out of 100 that the difference would be less than twice the standard error. The...
Page 188 - The standard error is primarily a measure of sampling variability, that is, of the variations that occur by chance because a sample rather than the whole of the population is surveyed. As calculated for this report, the standard error also partially measures the effect of response and enumeration errors, but it does not measure as such, any systematic biases in the data.
Page 188 - Reliability of the Estimates. Since the estimates are based on a sample, they may differ somewhat from the figures that would have been obtained if a complete census had been taken using the same schedules, instructions and enumerators.
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