Setting a Federal Agenda for Alzheimer's Disease: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, April 11, 1986, Detroit, MI.

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Page 50 - Its sister institutes, the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; and the National Institute of Mental Health.
Page 50 - ... the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the Federal agency with the prime responsibility for conducting and supporting research on the biomedical and behavioral processes of aging and the diseases of aging.
Page 105 - Directors (NASADAD) is pleased to have the opportunity to submit a statement for the record on the...
Page 28 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I first of all want to thank you...
Page 91 - Current Medicare statute limits medically appropriate physician services provided outside of the hospital setting for patients with Alzheimer's disease when coded as a mental disorder. The Department should clarify that, except for psychotherapy, physician treatment services for patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders are not subject to the $250 limitations. In other words, in determining whether services for these patients are subject to the limit, the nature of...
Page 34 - Care which is a seventeen year old state wide consumer agency concerned with the quality of care in Nursing Homes, Homes for the Aged and Adult Foster Care Homes, as adult board and care homes are called in Michigan.
Page 2 - Corporation in employing people beyond age '65. (a) The following comments were made in a statement presented by the Bankers Trust and Casualty Company to the Select Committee on Aging of the US House of Representatives in a hearing on March 16, 1977. The statement described the company's experience with a noncompulsory retirement prograa: "We feel our senior citizens _*** are valuable in an intangible way.
Page 37 - Quality of care and quality of life in many nursing homes are not satisfactory. Despite extensive government regulation for more than 10 years, some nursing homes can be found in every state that provide seriously inadequate quality of care and quality of life. At the same time, examples of good and even excellent care can be found in other nursing homes in the same states.
Page 42 - I would be glad to answer questions later. [The prepared statement of Ms.
Page 25 - Ths fourteen states which require prior authorization for part-time nursing care account for 83% of Medicaid expenditures for that service. The thirteen states requiring prior authorization for aide services account for 83% of these expenditures. Five states do not provide homemaker services. This patchwork of rules and coverage is confusing and inconsistent. The unavailability of requisite home-based services forces untold numbers of older Americans to jeopardize their health; pay out-of-pocket...

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