Word: homebound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advocate of using good nutritional practices to improve health. One preventive health measure that the Committee has been fighting to get passed for over two years is the National Meals-on-Wheels Program. This program would fund non-profit organizations which provide one free hot meal a day to homebound elderly or disabled individuals who could not otherwise get a hot meal in their homes. So far the Subcommittee on Aging, which has jurisdiction, has refused to even hold hearings on the Meals-on-Wheels bill. Furthermore, the committee has been forced by politics to write the bill...
...Professor Bernice Neugarten, "disproportionately disadvantaged." Many are foreign born, uneducated and unskilled. Far from all the aged are infirm, but 38% do suffer from some kind of chronic condition that limits their activities. Of these, fully half have serious problems and 5%, or one out of every 20, are homebound. About a third of all aged Americans are also plagued by poverty. Despite pensions, savings and Social Security, which will disburse $72 billion to 33.5 million recipients this year, fully 4.75 million of the nation's aged exist on less than $2,000 a year-well below the Federal...
...accomplish this, New York's Montefiore Hospital 28 years ago inaugurated home care for the elderly with regular visits to the homebound by doctors, physical therapists and social workers. Since then, about 100 other hospitals across the country have set up similar programs. Three years ago, Montefiore branched out with an aftercare program, under which stroke, arthritis and cancer patients were brought to the hospital for follow-up treatments that doctors hope will eliminate the need for institutional care. Two years ago, the hospital helped set up a day-hospital program. It offers custodial care to those who have...
...million for a variety of projects, including the Foster Grandparent Program, which pays oldsters for supervising dependent and neglected youngsters; $17.5 million for the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), which pays out-of-pocket expenses to 100,000 involved in such community activities as entertaining the handicapped and visiting homebound patients; and a skimpy $400,000 for the Senior Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE), which reimburses some 4,500 retired executives for expenses incurred while counseling small businesses and community organizations...
...campus study, S.U.N.Y. believes, should provide the advantages of higher learning to countless adults who might otherwise have no chance for a degree. These might include, for example, homebound housewives, deskbound businessmen and thousands of students too poor to afford living on campus. More important, perhaps, the newest "university without walls" will allow S.U.N.Y. to absorb many more students without erecting and maintaining expensive physical facilities. By 1974, the university expects 10,000 students in its un-campused college. By then, planners estimate that economies made possible by the new program should reduce the total yearly cost of educating...