Mental Health and the Elderly: Issues in Service Delivery to the Hispanic and Black Community : Hearing Before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 |
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Page 26 - Psychiatry reported in a l97l study that Being black and aged frequently means the piling up of life problems associated with each characteristic. The black aged often have less education, less income, smaller or no social security income, less adequate medical services, and fewer family supports than the aged in general; their vulnerability is often heightened by their living in areas where the risk of assault and robbery is high. Racism and 'ageism' may be combined to prevent the black aged from...
Page 4 - Missouri DENNIS M. HERTEL, Michigan ROBERT A. BORSKI, Pennsylvania BEN ERDREICH, Alabama NORMAN SISISKY, Virginia ROBERT E. WISE, JR., West Virginia BILL RICHARDSON, New Mexico HAROLD L. VOLKMER, Missouri BART GORDON, Tennessee THOMAS J. MANTON, New York RICHARD H.
Page 13 - Director, National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
Page 32 - Committee believes that the racist attitude of Americans which causes and perpetuates tension is patently a most compelling health hazard Its destructive effects severely cripple the growth and development of millions of our citizens, young and old alike. Yearly, it directly and indirectly causes more fatalities, disabilities and economic loss than any other single factor.
Page 22 - STATEMENT OF CURTIS D. COOK EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NATIONAL INDIAN COUNCIL ON AGING Mr. Chairman and distinguished members of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, I am honored to have this opportunity to present testimony before this committee.
Page 5 - National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center...
Page 13 - ... growth in the IHS budget over the same period. The trend is not new. The IHS has been struggling to keep pace with the growth in the cost of health care and the rising number of IHS beneficiaries for the past two decades. A report issued by the Department of Health and Human Services in 1 986, entitled, "Bridging the Gap: Report on the Task Force on Parity of Indian Health Services...
Page 14 - ... diet (prohibitively expensive otherwise). He also provides critical transportation to a hospital some 45 miles from their residence. At least once a week he takes his parents on an outing to the Trading Post where they socialize and purchase necessities. Both of his parent's degenerative illnesses are monitored by a Community Health Representative (CHR) who takes vital signs, delivers medicine and tries to anticipate any acute episode. During the last three years due to federal budget cuts the...
Page 55 - In G. Maddox, LN Robins, & N. Rosenberg (Eds.), Nature and extent of alcohol problems among the elderly (pp.
Page 108 - Report to the New York City Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Alcoholism Services.