Hospice and Respite Care: Hearing Before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, Elizabeth, New Jersey, June 18, 1990

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - Caregivers - 36 pages
 

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Page 2 - Although the ranks of the institutionalized elderly and disabled are growing, nursing homes are only a small piece of the solution to the puzzle of long-term care. Four out of five Americans with physical or mental disabilities are cared for
Page 27 - Let me thank all of you for your testimony. It has been very helpful, and I think it
Page 28 - is a pleasure to be here today and to have the opportunity to speak
Page 3 - I asked the Aging Committee to sponsor this hearing so that the Senate could learn more about how these programs work
Page 2 - Some of our greatest medical successes have prolonged and improved the quality of life for our aging and disabled citizens.
Page 34 - the hearing is adjourned. [Whereupon, at 2:45 pm, the committee was adjourned,
Page 31 - are institutionalized. Nine in ten of the disabled elderly not in nursing homes receive unpaid care from relatives and friends.
Page 30 - the views of the 250,000 members of the New Jersey Council of Senior Citizens.
Page 9 - in the middle of the night, 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning,
Page 28 - David Keiserman, Co-Legislative Chairman, New Jersey Chapter of the Council of Senior Citizens;

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