SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED FIRST CONGRESS SECOND SESSION LAKEWOOD, NEW JERSEY APRIL 16, 1990 Serial No. 101-19 Printed for the use of the Special Committee on Aging 31-609 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office JOHN GLENN, Ohio SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING DAVID PRYOR, Arkansas, Chairman BILL BRADLEY, New Jersey HERBERT H. KOHL, Wisconsin JOHN HEINZ, Pennsylvania PETE V. DOMENICI, New Mexico ALAN K. SIMPSON, Wyoming JOHN W. WARNER, Virginia NANCY LANDON KASSEBAUM, Kansas PORTIA PORTER MITTELMAN, Staff Director (II) 90-601953 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 Ms. Barbara Vandenberge, Executive Assistant to the Director, Visiting 3 1599 Mr. Alan J. Gibbs, Commissioner of Human Services, State of New Jersey Mr. Dudley Lesser, New Jersey State Coordinator for AARP/VOTĚ, Item 1. Written testimony from the Senior Citizens United Community Serv- (III) 53 RESPITE CARE IN NEW JERSEY MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1990 U.S. SENATE, SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING, The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 11:15 a.m., at Barton Hall, Leisure Village East, Dumbarton Drive, Lakewood, NJ. Hon. Bill Bradley (acting chairman of the committee) presiding. Present: Senator Bradley. MS. FORD. I want to welcome you all here today on behalf of Senator Bradley and his Aging Committee. We are very pleased to have him in Lakewood. For those of you whom I haven't met personally, I am Assemblywoman Marlene Lynch Ford, and I represent this district in Trenton. In Ocean County, and in the 10th District in particular, Senator Bradley has one of the highest percentages of people who are in their older years-I won't call them senior citizens, but they are older Americans and they are in need of the services that are the subject of this committee hearing. I can't thank you enough for bringing the Senate Aging Committee to Ocean County and to Lakewood. I want to welcome you on behalf of the citizens here. Thank you for coming down here and listening to what we have to say. It is good to see you again. OPENING STATEMENT BY SENATOR BILL BRADLEY Senator BRADLEY. Well, let me thank Assemblywoman Ford for her courtesy in coming today to introduce me and welcome me to Leisure Village. The Committee will come to order. This is a hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, and I particularly want to express my appreciation to the trustees of Leisure Village for allowing us to hold the hearing here today. I also want to express my appreciation to all those who have been willing to come forward and testify, and I want to welcome all those who are in attendance for the hearing today. We are aging in America. In New Jersey we can not only see the seriousness of the problem for older and disabled people and their families, but we can also find some of the most innovative and effective programs in America right here in New Jersey, responding to the problems of the elderly. Today I have asked the Senate Aging Committee to solicit testimony about the New Jersey Respite Care Pilot Project. It is a small (1) |