7 (1) prior development of data supplying concrete evidence of need in the particular community. (2) Establishment of interrelationships with on-going local health and welfare programs. (3) Assurance that the programs will serve not only the mobile, relatively intact elderly, but will be geared to the isolated, hard-toreach, handicapped citizens. (4) Evidence that the Center has resulted from the local and state planning effort required under Title III; that integrated with the proposed Center program are the impact programs proposed in this Bill (nutrition and transportation), as well as existing federally supported health services under Titles XVIII and XIX, the Community Mental Health and Retardation programs, and the social services available under Titles I and XVI of the Social Security Act. Added to array of programs requiring integration are those of the Office of Education, the Veteran's Administration, HUD, and other public programs. Currently, most senior citizens centers are limited to recreational programs that serve the well aged who are able to get to the centers without help and who do not require supervision while they are there. If the purposes of this Bill are to be carried out--- that is, comprehensive programs aimed at a priority of serving the elderly with the greatest economic and social needs---such suggested guidelines must be built in. 79-239 O - 72 - 20 8 Essential to all new impact programs as well as to existing services is an assurance that they will be part of a holistic network of services, maximizing the impact of all resources, preventing duplication and reinforcing the principle that the most needy will in fact be first to command the attention of all services. The National Association of Social Workers appreciates this opportunity to present its views. Mr. MURPHY. I thank all the witnesses on behalf of the chairman. The subcommittee is adjourned. (Whereupon, at 3:10 p.m., the subcommittee was adjourned, to reconvene subject to the call of the Chair.) OLDER AMERICANS ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1972 MONDAY, MAY 15, 1972 U.S. SENATE, OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:10 a.m. in room 6226, New Senate Office Building, Senator Thomas F. Eagleton (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senator Eagleton. Committee staff members present: James J. Murphy, majority counsel. Also present: William E. Oriol, staff director, Special Committee on Aging. Senator EAGLETON. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. The Senate Subcommittee on Aging of the Labor and Public Welfare Committee is once again in session to continue its hearings with respect to the Older Americans Act. Our first witness this morning is Mr. Cyril F. Brickfield, legislative counsel, American Association of Retired Persons. Mr. Brickfield? STATEMENT OF CYRIL F. BRICKFIELD, LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED PERSONS, ACCOMPANIED BY PETER HUGHES AND LAWRENCE F. LANE, LEGISLATIVE REPRESENTATIVES Mr. BRICKFIELD. Senator, I have a prepared statement of some length, and rather than read the entire statement, I have a summary which I will read. Senator EAGLETON. Wonderful. Mr. BRICKFIELD. I have two copies of the summary. I would like to give you a copy to read along with me. Senator EAGLETON. Do you have one for the reporter? Mr. BRICKFIELD. I will give him mine when I am through with it. I would like to submit my formal statement for the record. Senator EAGLETON. The entire statement will appear in the record and we will proceed in the summary. Mr. BRICKFIELD. Thank you. Senator EAGLETON. Please proceed. Mr. BRICKFIELD. I am Cyril F. Brickfield, the legislative counsel of the National Retired Teachers Association and the American Association of Retired Persons, and I am accompanied on my right by Mr. Peter Hughes, our legislative representative and by Mr. Lawrence Lane, also an associate of mine, and a legislative representative. |