The Aging American: A Study of Needs and Attitudes of Forty-Four Applicants to the Office on Aging of Bergen County New Jersey, 1969
Abstract
The increasing number of older citizens, both quan- titive and proportionate to other age groups of the American population, is demonstrably the cause of ever-growing concern. The President's Commission on Aging is the most prominent on a list of organizations oriented to the examination and amelioration of the multifarious problems of the older people in our society. Not only are they the subject of endless study, but an ever-increasing body of legislation concerned with their situation and their welfare is now in existence. Even if its growth does not keep pace with their needs, it is still a matter for some congratulation that such legislation has come into being within the lifetime of people who would never have believed in their youth that their personal problems could become a matter of concern for their country or that in 1961 a White House Conference would be focused upon their problems and needs. There are numerous national publications, hundreds of geriatric specialists, thousands of Senior Citizens Clubs, all existing because of the twenty million Americans who are sixty-five years old and over among our two hundred million Americans.
Subject Area
Social work|Aging|Gerontology
Recommended Citation
Jurgensen, Senta Johanna, "The Aging American: A Study of Needs and Attitudes of Forty-Four Applicants to the Office on Aging of Bergen County New Jersey, 1969" (1969). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30359813.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30359813
