Ability Is Ageless. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care of the Select Committee on Aging. House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session [microform]
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- 5486906
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- Author:
- Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Aging
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1986
- 103 p.
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This document presents the text of a hearing on the relationship of ability to age, in reference to removing age caps so that age will be irrelevent to getting and keeping a job. Statements by Representatives Ron Wyden, Claude Pepper, Ralph Regula, Bill Schuette, Jim Lightfoot, Ike Skelton, George Wortley, and Don Bonker are included. Testimony by witnesses who are themselves older adults is given by William H. Masters, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, Herbert Brown, Nellie Brown, Albert Sabin, Sam Freeman, Juanita Thornton, and Robert Butler. Testimony by these expert witnesses is provided: (1) Jack Ossofsky, president of the National Council on Aging; (2) David S. Liederman, executive director of the Child Welfare League of America and cochair of Generations United; (3) Donald K. DeWard, director of employment, the Travelers Co.; (4) Evelyn Smith, codirector of Retiree Job Bank; and (5) Alec Olson, administrator of Green Thumb, Inc. The appendix includes material submitted by Robert N. Butler on nutritional needs in relationship to aging, and statements submitted by older prominent Americans. (ABL)
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