Reauthorization of the Older Americans Act: Special Problems Facing Florida's Elderly : Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Human Services of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, October 31, 1983, Port Richey and Tarpon Springs, FLA. |
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Page 12 - Suitable housing, independently selected, designed and located with reference to special needs and available at costs which older citizens can afford.
Page 59 - The maximum amount allowable as a transfer from Title III-C to Title III-B be expanded. Senior Employment, including age and Income eligibility criteria, and Senior Volunteer Programs be transferred to the Administration on Aging; Area plans be required to address the issue of long-term care and identify a strategy for systems development in this area; The Title IV Research and Training Program be maintained; The...
Page 59 - Congress for reauthorization in 1987; and WHEREAS, counties administer one-third of all the nation's area agencies on aging and have been largely responsible for providing for the special needs and care of our older Americans; and WHEREAS, counties and the local elected official deal with the problems of older individuals on a daily face to face basis; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that NACo strongly endorses the reauthorization of the Older Americans Act and urges that the federal government appropriate...
Page 24 - ... with us in terms of analyzing the problem with respect to this particular section — section 116 compliance — and to see whether there are any initiatives we or you should take which might improve that situation. Ms. RINGER. We will be very happy to do that, Mr. Chairman. Mr. KASTENMEIER. I have a number of questions, but I am going to just ask one or two and yield to my colleagues. If there is time at the end, we can pursue some of the others. What happens legally if the FCC would impose,...
Page 27 - And I don't know what I would do if I didn't have a place to go, because that is the only place I have to go.
Page 59 - RESOLVED, that NACo urges Congress to adopt the following specific recommendations in reference to the reauthorization of the Older Americans Act that: • Local...
Page 32 - ... on up, and also Harriet Fuller. If you will, state your names and go ahead with your testimony, please. STATEMENTS OF VERA JONES, PRESIDENT, TENNESSEE CHAPTER, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK SOCIAL WORKERS; AND HARRIET FULLER, LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MEMPHIS, TENN. Ms. JONES. My name is Vera Jones. I am president of the local chapter of the National Association of Black Social Workers in Memphis, Tenn. Our organization has been in existence since November of 1971. Since that time we have had...
Page 1 - This hearing will come to order. I am pleased to convene this oversight hearing of the Subcommittee on Human Services on the reauthorization of the Older Americans Act.
Page 25 - We have reserved some time for the members of the audience who would like to make a comment or ask a question, and we are limiting it to 1 minute per member.