Y 4. AG 4/2:0L 1/23 REAUTHORIZATION OF THE OLDER AMERICANS HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON RETIREMENT INCOME AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION DECEMBER 2, 1983, ROSEVILLE, CALIF. Printed for the use of the Select Committee on Aging SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California, Chairman CLAUDE PEPPER, Florida GERALDINE A. FERRARO, New York HENRY A. WAXMAN, California BUTLER DERRICK, South Carolina DONALD JOSEPH ALBOSTA, Michigan IKE SKELTON, Missouri DENNIS M. HERTEL, Michigan ROBERT A. BORSKI, Pennsylvania FREDERICK C. (RICK) BOUCHER, Virginia BEN ERDREICH, Alabama BUDDY MACKAY, Florida MATTHEW J. RINALDO, New Jersey, JOHN PAUL HAMMERSCHMIDT, Arkansas NORMAN D. SHUMWAY, California JUDD GREGG, New Hampshire LARRY E. CRAIG, Idaho JIM COURTER, New Jersey LYLE WILLIAMS, Ohio CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER, Rhode Island JOHN MCCAIN, Arizona MICHAEL BILIRAKIS, Florida Alice Gonzales, director, California Department of Aging, Sacramento, Calif.... Deanna Lea, executive director, Area 4 Agency on Aging, Sacramento, Calif.... Charlotte Humphrey, director, San Joaquin County Area Agency on Aging, Shirley Rosamond, director, High Sierra Senior Citizens, Truckee, Calif Russell Papenhausen, supervisor, 2d district, Plumas County, Calif.. 68 Regina Siciliano-Kutchins, State director, Green Thumb, Petaluma, Calif.. Nancy Fricke, volunteer coordinator and day care director, Greenhaven John L. Colen, Ph.D., dean, School of Health and Human Services, Cali- fornia State University, Sacramento, Calif. Rebecca Naman, vice-chair, Area 4 Agency on Aging Advisory Council, Theresa Cook, chairperson, governing board of Area 4 Agency on Aging, Frederick C. Joyce, chairperson, advisory council, Central Sierra Area Beatrice C. Graham, information and referral librarian, Auburn-Placer Tom Creed, California Commission on Aging, Sacramento, Calif Marcy Monteith, public health nutritionist, California Department of George Braley, Deputy Administrator for Special Nutrition Programs, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.. Hope Hill, Sonora, Calif.. Gwenith Larson, supervisor, Jackson Nutrition Site, Amador, Calif. 103 Page Panel six: Health and long-term care: Hon. Jean Moorhead, California State Assembly, Sacramento, Calif... Nancy Lund, American Association of Retired Persons, Greenville, Calif. Dick Lund, American Association of Retired Persons, Greenville, Calif. Ronald L. Usher, director, Sacramento County Health Department.... Dolli Cutler, management consultant, aging and long-term care, Sacra- AUDIENCE PARTICIPANTS Janet J. Levy, former director of the California Department of Aging. Rev. Harry Carlson, chair, committee on aging, mental health advisory board "Identification of Unmet Senior Nutrition Needs," a hearing by the California Legislature, Senate Subcommittee on Aging, Senator Henry J. Mello, Chair- Adelaide Attard, chairperson, Federal Council on the Aging, before the Sub- committee on Aging, Committee on Labor and Human Resources, U.S. Senate, November 15, 1983, prepared statement and attachments..... Patricia A. Berg, Executive Director, Area I Agency on Aging, Eureka, Calif., Joseph Ormond, president, Redwoods Ombudsman, Eureka, Calif., letter.. Ted Ruhig, chairman, Sacramento County Commission on Aging, letter REAUTHORIZATION OF THE OLDER AMERICANS ACT: A RURAL PERSPECTIVE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1983 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON RETIREMENT INCOME AND EMPLOYMENT, Roseville, Calif. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9 a.m. at the Placer County Fairgrounds, 800 All American City Boulevard, Lauppe Hall, Roseville, California, Hon. Norman D. Shumway (acting chairman of the committee) presiding. Members present: Representatives Shumway of California and Jeffords of Vermont. Subcommittee staff present: Nancy E. Hobbs, minority staff director, Subcommittee on Retirement Income and Employment. Congressional staff present: Chris Seeger, administrative assistant, Lois Sahyoun, coordinator, Loretta Trentman, legislative assistant, and Jack Sieglock, field representative, all of Representative Shumway's staff. OPENING STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN NORMAN D. SHUMWAY Mr. SHUMWAY. We've already fallen a few minutes behind schedule. We'd like to get underway as soon as we can. I would like to welcome all of you to this hearing. This is a hearing being held by the Select Committee on Aging of the House of Representatives. The chairman of that committee is Congressman Ed Roybal, another Californian from Los Angeles. Ed planned to be here today with us, but unfortunately he has a critical illness in his family and so he left last night to return to Los Angeles 1 day early and asked me to apologize to you for his inability to be here with us today. We have, nevertheless, had three hearings. This will be the third in the series. The first hearing was in Los Angeles on Monday of this week. Yesterday we had the second hearing in Redding. That hearing specifically dealt with the subject of employment, creating job opportunities for the elderly. Today will be the third in the series of hearings, and of course today's subject is the reauthorization of the Older Americans Act. I am privileged to serve with Congressman Roybal and some 58 other Members of Congress on the Select Committee on Aging. I have served there for 5 years, and I now am privileged to serve on the Retirement Income and Employment Subcommittee as the |