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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Aging. – 1986
Text of a Congressional hearing examining the 10-year-old Long-Term-Care Ombudsman Program funded under the Older Americans Act is presented in this document. Opening remarks are given by Representatives Wyden, Snowe, Biaggi, and Robinson. Witnesses testifying include: (1) Michio Suzuki, Associate Commissioner, Office of State and Tribal Programs,…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Hearings, Institutionalized Persons, Nursing Homes
Peer reviewedUehara, Edwina S.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1991
This study evaluated 2,815 adults with developmental disabilities in 328 Illinois intermediate care and skilled nursing facilities. Only 10 percent were determined to be appropriately placed in medical settings; 27 percent were enrolled in day training programs; and many individuals recommended for alternative residential settings had medical and…
Descriptors: Adults, Day Programs, Developmental Disabilities, Evaluation Criteria
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1987
This U.S. General Accounting Office report discusses the Medicaid management controls needed to assure that mentally retarded residents of nursing homes receive the services they need to help them function independently. Medicaid's involvement with the retarded in institutions and nursing homes includes financing active treatment services, such as…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Individualized Programs, Inspection, Institutional Administration
Johnston, Susanna, Ed.; Phillipson, Chris, Ed. – 1983
These 11 papers consider the older learner as a consumer of education and examine how the concepts of education, educators, institutions, and learners must be revised if educational involvement in later life is to be regarded as the norm. Following a prologue, "Education and the Interpretation of Life Experience" (Michel Philibert), the…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Adult Education, Adult Students, Biographies
