Alternatives to Institutionalization of the Elderly, 1973: Joint Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Aging and the Special Subcommittee on Human Resources of ..., 93-1, San Francisco, Calif., June 4, 1973; San Diego, Calif., August 14, 1973

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Page 191 - Older Americans have much to give this country. The best thing this country can give to them is the chance to be a part of it, a chance to play a continuing role In the Great American adventure. We need a new, national attitude toward older people In this country, and that attitude must be one which recognizes that America, whatever it does for its older citizens, fully appreciates what our older citizens can do for America.
Page 118 - Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark : and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Page 132 - These centers will allow working families to drop their elderly relatives off on the way to work and pick them up on the way home.
Page 141 - ... OF MRS. RICHARD G. MILLER, MEMBER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, US LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS; ACCOMPANIED BY MRS. ROBERT L, KLEIN, PRESIDENT, NEW JERSEY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS Senator CRANSTON. The next witness is Mrs. Richard Miller, director of the League of Women Voters of the United States. Mrs. Miller, we are delighted to have you with us. If you could summarize your report and place your whole statement in the record, that might expedite our proceedings. Mrs. MILLER. That is precisely what I wanted...
Page 181 - Maintenance and long-term care when disability occurs To be specifically responsive to the needs of the elderly, special attention must be given to the availability and quality of long-term care and to the development of adequate, appropriate alternatives to institutional care.
Page 120 - November/December 1971 49 all the complaints made about these patients by their families or others interested in having them committed concerned either senile behavior alone or in combination with such major psychiatric symptoms as delusions, hallucinations or depression, but this was equally true of those who died within a month and those who survived with one exception: the ten comatose patients who could not be examined by the psychiatrist. Six of the eight men and one of the two women in this...
Page 92 - ... the ownership of productive capital in its members at unprecedented speed. The end result is to raise employee incomes without raising business costs and without raising the price the public pays for the company's products, all of which are in the public interest. EXTENSION OF THE PLAN FOR INDUSTRY. In addition to these specific proposals, there are a number of other areas in which the Administration might take the initiative in accelerating the process of building ever -expanding numbers of...
Page 179 - This system not only affords inadequate coverage but promotes hospitalization rather than care in the community, often contrary to sound psychiatric practice.
Page 30 - ... transportation for older persons, our efforts in other fields will not be as effective as they should be. This is why I told the delegates to the White House Conference on Aging that I would, by administrative action, require that Federal grants which provide services for older persons also ensure that the transportation needed to take advantage of these services is available.
Page 121 - Fairview was probably inappropriate; instead they should have been receiving medical treatment or terminal care for their physical disorders in a general hospital ward. As for the argument that a sick, confused person is easily mistaken for a mentally ill person, it is significant that young patients are never sent to state hospitals in the moribund condition described above. Patients aged 35, on stretchers, in comas or with intravenous tubes running are unlikely to be found applying for admission...

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