Congregate Housing for Older People: An Urgent Need, a Growing Demand : Selected Papers from the First National Conference on Congregate Housing for Older PeopleWilma Thompson Donahue, Marie McGuire Thompson, D. J. Curren U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Human Development, Administration on Aging, 1977 - Broj stranica: 221 |
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Administration on Aging agencies alternative appropriate Carp census Committee on Aging conference congregate housing cost Dale Barnes Department of Housing Director elderly housing elderly persons elderly population estimates Ethel Percy Andrus facilities financing food service funds Government Printing Office Health Interview Survey Health Statistics household housekeeping housing and services Housing and Urban housing authorities housing development housing for older housing needs housing programs institutional institutionalization Lawton limitation of activity limitation of mobility living arrangements living environments low income Medicaid Medicare Michigan Numbers in thousands nursing home Older Americans Older Americans Act older persons percent planning problems public housing require residential residents retirement service needs service package service programs shelter and services Social Gerontology social services space special housing sponsor subareas submarkets support services tenants types U.S. Congress U.S. Department U.S. Senate Urban Development Washington
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