Background Studies Prepared by State Committees for the White House Conference on Aging |
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activities Administration Adult Education age group agencies AGING AND AGED applicants areas Association average BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY beds Board of Health Center chronic disease chronically ill Church City clinics Commission on Aging Committee Conference on Aging Council county homes developed disability Division elderly employers employment estimated facilities females funds Gerontology Golden Age Club Hawaii hospital included income increase Indiana individual institutions interviews Iowa Johnson County Kansas labor licensed licensed practical nurses Linn County living males Marion County Mental Health needs nursing homes Oahu occupational therapy Old Age Assistance older persons older workers patients percent percentage personnel persons 65 physical physician placement planning problems programs psychiatric Public Health Public Welfare recreation rehabilitation reported residents retirement Salvation Army senior citizens Sponsor staff survey Table tuberculosis U.S. Census Bureau University of Iowa vocational White House White House Conference Wichita women
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Page 1274 - How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service' (Charles Darwin, 18th September 1861).
Page 1672 - Commissioners in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business of the Commission...
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Page 1528 - Rehabilitation facility" means a facility which is operated for the primary purpose of assisting in the rehabilitation of disabled persons through an integrated program of medical, psychological, social, and vocational evaluation and services under competent professional supervision, and in the case of...
Page 1145 - US Bureau of the Census, US Census of Population: 1950, Vol. II, Characteristics of the Population, Part 1, US Summary, Washington 1953.
Page 1671 - ... mail. SEC. 3. The purpose of the commission shall be to encourage research in and study and discussion of the problems of the aging and the aged, especially such problems as (a) employment and employability, (b) income maintenance, (c) health and physical care, (a) housing, living arrangements, and family relationship, (e) effective use of leisure time...
Page 1869 - The board of supervisors of any county or the governing body of any city, may...
Page 1669 - The county board of each county shall have the care of all poor persons in said county who have no legal settlement in the town, city or village where they may be, except as provided in section 49.03, and shall see that they are properly relieved and taken care of at the expense of the county.
Page 1505 - ... the restoration of the handicapped to the fullest physical, mental, social, vocational, and economic usefulness of which they are capable.
Page 1671 - Thereafter, as a term expires, each new appointment shall be for a 4-year term ; or, in case of a vacancy, until the expiration of the respective term. All terms shall expire on January 15, but an appointee shall continue in office until his successor is appointed. The Governor may terminate the appointment of any member of the commission for good and just cause, and the reasons for such termination of appointment shall be communicated to each member of the commission by first-class mail.