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The Governors' Conference, 1954
169
states were assisting in providing facilities with price
cussed at some length. It was pointed out that in
arrangements permitting aging people to live inde-
California 273,000 aged persons receive $2.5 million
pendently in their communities as long as possible.
a month in pensions. A current referendum pro-
It was noted that the Minnesota Commission on
posal would raise the pension to $100 a month. In
Aging recently had completed a survey of the prob-
Colorado pensions already are over $100 a month
lems of aging citizens in that state and had found
in many cases; payments are being made in many
five major obstacles blocking the employment of
states to pensioners who have established residence
older persons: employment and hiring practices;
in Colorado and then moved elsewhere.
pension plans; medical examinations; job adjust-
Discussion also dealt with the action of many states
ments by older workers; and attitudes of fellow
in recent years, through their departments of public
employees. The commission recommended that
health, in developing programs for prevention and
older adults should remain an integral part of the
control of chronic disease. These have included pro-
community and should receive specialized recrea-
grams directed to specific conditions such as tuber-
tional and counseling services. It also recommended
culosis, heart disease and cancer, and programs con-
more hospitals for the chronically ill, better con-
cerned with more general problems of geriatrics.
struction of homes and institutions for the aged, and
Programs vary from state to state; some are educa-
closer affiliation of such institutions with general
tional, some diagnostic, and some centered on treat-
hospitals.
ment. A number of states have encouraged local
A similar commission in Connecticut, it was re-
governments to convert county homes into public
ported to the Conference, completed a study in 1953
nursing homes, with medical and nursing staffs to
of the employment desires of the aged. It found that
give proper care to long-term patients. Through
seven out of ten persons wanted to work after
public assistance payments, the states have contrib-
reaching 65. A geriatrics building had been estab-
uted financially to the conversion and maintenance
lished in Connecticut at a cost of $9,000 per bed,
of these homes.
and chronic disease centers were being set up in the
state, with special emphasis on therapy techniques.
A question under study in Connecticut is the effect
of a possible decline in the business cycle on the
THE
NEED for research in the entire field of the
employment of elderly people, at a time when the
aged and chronically ill was stressed. It was em-
population is becoming older.
phasized that research may be carried on through
In Maine, problems of the population over 65 had
state medical schools and state administered general
led to erection of a new building for the aging at a
and specialized hospitals. Further fact finding and
cost of $6,000 per bed. The last session of the legis-
study were recognized as needed on the extent of
lature had set up a Committee on Aging, which
chronic illness and the factors that lead to it, in-
already was under way with an extensive study of
cluding the effects of such elements as diet, housing
the problem.
and working conditions. It was felt essentially that
Building costs, it was recognized, have become
studies of the problem should not only reflect the
one of the most important obstacles to the proper
existing situation but should provide a basis for
housing of aged persons. For example, it was noted
intelligent planning of adequate care, treatment and
that in Ohio the cost of erecting public buildings
rehabilitation facilities. The Conference requested
rapidly was becoming prohibitive in some areas.
the Council of State Governments to conduct such
Ohio has a prevailing wage statute which requires
a study, taking into account the material presently
the payment of metropolitan wage scales even in
being developed by the national commission on the
rural areas. In some cases this had contributed to
study of patients in chronic institutions and by
preventing establishment of proper facilities for the
study groups in the several states, and to report to
chronically ill and aged.
the 1955 annual meeting of the Governors' Con-
The question of pensions for the aged was dis-
ference.
The President's Message
A
T THE State Dinner on Monday evening Vice-
pects and problems before us. Prominent in the
President Richard M. Nixon represented Pres-
presentation were specific suggestions of the Presi-
ident Dwight D. Eisenhower in speaking on
dent for federal-state cooperation to provide Amer-
our nation's goals, the fundamentals of our govern-
ica with modern, adequate highways.
mental system, and certain of the outstanding pros-
President Eisenhower had expected to deliver the
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