Veteran Senior Citizen Health Care Act of 1979: Hearing Before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 1523 and H.R 4015, Monday, October 29, 1979 |
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academic activities Advisory affiliated aging veteran ALAN CRANSTON American Legion Assistant Chief Medical BAGANZ basic believe bill biological biomedical cardiopulmonary rehabilitation cell centers of geriatric Chairman CRANSTON Chief Medical Director costs demonstration centers Department of Medicine diseases DNA damage DNA repair DONATI efforts elderly established evaluation existing GRECC's facilities function funding genetic damage geriatric and extended geriatric centers geriatric medicine geriatric research geriatrics and gerontology GOLDMAN GRECC program Health Care Act hospital immune system improve increasing institutions legislation LEROY lifespan Little Rock Makinodan Medical Center medical schools million National needs nursing home outpatient patients personnel physicians problems projects Question rehabilitation repair responsibility role Senator THURMOND Senior Citizen Health specific staff staffing submitted the following task force testimony thymosin tion TOWBIN UCLA unit VA hospitals VA Medical Center VA's veteran population Veteran Senior Citizen Veterans Administration
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Page 234 - conduct and support biomedical, social, and behavioral research and training related to the aging process and the diseases and other special problems and needs of the aged.
Page 54 - 4015. As a strong supporter of legislation to benefit our nation's veterans, I urge your Committee to give careful consideration to the three concerns I have outlined. Thank you for your cooperation. Yours very truly, Thomas F. Eagleton, Chairman, Subcommittee on Aging. Senator Thurmond. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, it is a pleasure to
Page 254 - My name is Allan Goldstein. I am Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC It is a privilege to have the opportunity to
Page 37 - 96th Congress, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish within the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans Administration the position of Assistant Chief Medical Director for Geriatrics and Extended Care and to establish demonstration centers of geriatric
Page 11 - Congresswoman Heckler and cosponsored by the chairman of the House Select Committee on Aging, Mr. Pepper, as well as the chairman and ranking minority member of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, Messrs. Roberts and Hammerschmidt, along with many others, passed that body on June 5, 1979, by
Page 58 - aged group of citizens. The main thrust of the legislation will be determined by the individual who is named to the position of Assistant Chief Medical Director for Geriatrics and Extended Care. The legislation requires that the Assistant Chief Medical Director for Geriatrics and Extended Care have a specialty in geriatrics and gerontology.
Page 41 - ^(B) In designating hospitals under subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, the Administrator shall take into consideration— (i) the hospitals that, on the date of the enactment of this subsection, are operating a geriatric research, education, and clinical center and shall designate, to the extent possible, each such hospital as a demonstration center;
Page 10 - 1 for fiscal year 1980, the amount of $20,000,000 for fiscal 2 year 1981, the amount of $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1982, 3 and the amount of $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1983.". 4 Sec. 5. The amendments made by this Act shall take 5 effect on October 1, 1979. [From the Congressional Record Vol. 125, No. 95, pp.
Page 226 - Senior Citizen Health Care Act." This bill addresses some of the major issues facing us at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH),
Page 255 - Director of Wadsworth GRECC, who will testify this morning have helped to provide us with this important new knowledge. With this knowledge, which has come primarily from the lab bench, we have begun to develop new strategies to fight disease. A prime example of the translation of