AGED

Addresses

Administration Health Policy: Representative Waxman, 2611 [9FE]

Retired Federal Employees: James B. Hunt, Governor of North Carolina, 14382 [24MY]

Amendments

Age Discrimination Act: clarify applications of certain titles (H.R. 5490), 18529 [25JN], 18842, 18846, 18847, 18853, 18856, 18858, 18864, 18865 [26JN], 22644 [7AU]

Discrimination: restore prohibition effectiveness in federally assisted programs (S. 2568), 22645 [7AU], 25794 [18SE]

Foster care and SSI: funding (H.R. 6266), 26400 [20SE]

Health Services, Preventive Health Services, and Home and Community-Based Services Act (S. 2301), 30808 [9OC]

National Nursing Home Residents Day: designate (S.J. Res. 198), 10549 [1MY]

———designate (S.J. Res. 198), title amendment, 10549 [1MY]

Older Americans Act: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 4785), 12324 [15MY], 20334 [29JN]

———authorizing appropriations (S. 2603), 14214 [24MY]

Social security: cost-of-living adjustment (H.R. 1428), 21163 [26JY]

Analyses

Broaden Eligibility Requirements for Retirement Benefits for Federal Employees (H.R. 5935), 19422 [27JN]

Foreign Service Act Amendment (H.R. 5197), 6054-6056 [20MR]

Multiemployer Pension Plan—Termination Insurance Reform Act (S. 2329), 2920 [22FE]

Retirement Equity for Spouses of Federal Employees (H.R. 6273), 26199 [19SE]

What the Civil Rights Act of 1984 (S. 2568) May Mean for the Private Sector: Senate Republican Policy Committee, 32444-32450 [12OC]

Articles and editorials

Aging Mind Proves Capable of Lifelong Growth, 3695-3696 [28FE], 12871 [17MY]

Alternative to Layoffs Explored in New Book on Short-Time Compensation From Work in America Institute, 17216 [19JN]

At 94, Doctor Keeps a Finger on World Pulse, 16621 [14JN]

Bonker Medical Bill Worthy of Support, 31719 [10OC]

Building Blocks for Health Care Reform, 7113-7115 [29MR]

Building Choices Into Care System, 20172 [29JN]

Chance To Help the Jobless Before They Get That Old, 24719 [10SE]

Closing the Bias Gap, 9268 [12AP]

Controlled Trial of the Effect of a Prepaid Group Practice on Use of Services, 15564-15567 [8JN]

Couple Wins Court Battle To See Grandson, 6, 1158 [31JA]

Dining Out Is Pastime, 30257 [4OC]

Disability Disaster, 31748 [10OC]

Don't Give Away Pension Surpluses, 32543 [12OC]

Down With the IRA, 14349 [24MY]

Elderly's Concerns Get Top Vote for Silver Haired Legislators, 161 [23JA]

Embarrassment of Riches for the States, 12683 [17MY]

Felons Find Devious Ways To Get Ohio Medical Licenses by Fraud, 15546 [8JN]

Fighting for the Disabled, 3277 [23FE]

Gathering Lauds a Man's Service, 28185 [1OC]

Gloucester Township Seniors Set Example for All, 325 [24JA]

Goodie Is 94—History Week Salutes Elderly Women, 6180 [21MR]

Governors, Social Security and the Deficit, 1881 [6FE]

Grove City Choo-Choo, 17875 [21JN]

Harsh Medicine—Medicare's New Limits on Hospital Payments Force Wide Cost Cuts, 13299 [22MY]

Health Care Cost Inflation Problem, 5367 [13MR]

Hospital Occupancy Rate Declined to New Low, 14152 [24MY]

Inside an Alzheimer's Family, 639 [26JA]

Is Social Security a Federal Ponzi Game?, 6438 [22MR]

Jim Peace Takes His Fourth Retirement—No Cruise Ships or Lounge Chairs, 28185 [1OC]

John and Marian Know Well What the Medicare Cuts Mean, 26291 [20SE]

Leaving It All Behind—Village's MD Tries Indiana After Losing License in Ohio, 15547 [8JN]

Looming Federal Surplus, 7506 [3AP], 8255-8260 [5AP]

Maple Heights Senior Program, 3697 [28FE]

Medicare Needs Doctor-Cost Control, 2476 [9FE], 12461 [16MY]

Medicare—New 60-Day Proposal's Inequity, 2364 [8FE]

Nowhere To Go but the Porch, 11939 [10MY]

Pickle—Hill Guardian of Social Security, 16780 [15JN]

Prince Describes New Senior Citizens Center, 12100 [14MY]

Public Twilight of Jacob Javits, 31096-31097 [9OC]

Put Out to Pasture Our Idea of Age 65, 3474 [27FE]

Rand Experiment and Economical Health Care, 15568 [8JN]

Restoring the Force of Title IX, 9268 [12AP]

Right to Life, 2028 [7FE]

Ruminations Inspired by a Medicare Card, 15759 [11JN]

Save Civil Service Retirement Rights, 20434 [29JN]

Senior Center a Reality, 12100 [14MY]

Senior Citizens Seek To Plug Medigap, 13302 [22MY]

Seven Myths About Aging, 28171 [1OC]

Sizing Each Slice of the Surplus Pie, 32543 [12OC]

Social Security Dependable; Don't Tamper With It Now, 21738 [31JY]

Social Security False Alarm, 5945 [20MR]

Social Security Politics, 24111 [10AU]

Social Security—New Realism, 22061-22063 [1AU]

South Bronx Seniors More Secure, Thanks to Housing Authority, 26909 [25SE]

Study Asks Long-Term Care Alternative, 20172 [29JN]

Ten Best Legislators, 5088 [8MR]

Three Hospitals Offering Patients Package Deals, 14166 [24MY]

Title IX Fiasco Must Be Corrected, 28817 [2OC]

Tufts Nutrition Researchers Study Diet and Aging Process, 3033 [22FE]

Veteran Wins Fight To Keep His Pet, 19715 [28JN]

When a Booming Population of Old Vets Checks in for VA Health Care, Look Out, 15504 [7JN]

Who'll Mind America's Children?, 7096 [29MR]

Wrong, Reynolds, 17979 [21JN]

Bills and resolutions

Age discrimination: prohibit (see H.R. 5346)

Aliens: study on financing repatriation costs (see S. 2402)

Alzheimer's disease: demonstration projects for alternative medicare benefits for victims (see H.R. 5888)

Alzheimer's disease patients (see S. 2221)

Alzheimer's Disease Research Coordination Act: enact (see S. 2946)

Breast cancer: requiring physicians and surgeons to provide certain information to patients (see H.R. 5967)

Committee on Aging (Select): funds for investigations and studies (see H. Res. 444)

Education: senior citizen tutorial volunteer network programs (see S. 2310)

EEOC: transfer of certain functions for enforcement of Age Discrimination in Employment Act (see S. 2985)

Employment: prohibit discrimination (see H.R. 6233)

ERISA: preventing cutbacks in benefits upon merger or consolidation of plans or transfers of assets or liabilities between plans (see H.R. 5475)

Fire fighters: exclusion from Age Discrimination in Employment Act (see H.R. 5310)

Geriatrics: authorizing 5-year appropriations for training (see S. 3009, 3035)

Hospice care: payment rates (see H.R. 5386)

Housing: home equity conversions through sale leaseback transactions (see H.R. 5302)

IRS: authority to waive estimated tax penalties (see S. 2257)

Law enforcement officers: exclusion from Age Discrimination in Employment Act (see H.R. 5310)

———exemption of State and local governments from Age Discrimination in Employment Act (see S. 2425)

Lottery: financing social security retirement and medicare programs (see H.R. 6278)

Medicaid: coverage of dental services (see H.R. 5981)

———coverage of out-of-hospital prescription drugs (see H.R. 5977)

Medicare: additional transitional year in implementation of prospective payments for inpatient hospital services (see H.R. 4969)

———alternative liability system for medical malpractice (see S. 2690)

———assignment requirement for reimbursement of physicians (see H.R. 5169)

———community and State long-term care centers (see H.R. 5726)

———cost containment through preferred provider arrangements (see S. 2502)

———coverage of catastrophic illnesses (see S. 2895)

———coverage of community nursing center services (see H.R. 4865)

———coverage of dental and eye care, dentures; eyeglasses, and hearing aids (see H.R. 5892)

———delete the provision which excludes persons entitled to hospital insurance benefits from eligibility to health benefits (see H.R. 5889)

———demonstration projects for alternative benefits for individuals with Alzheimer's disease (see H.R. 5888)

———denying additional capital-related costs associated with the recirculation of hospital assets (see H.R. 5856)

———designate 20 regional centers for treatment of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia (see H.R. 5863)

———development of methodology for payment for hospital outpatient care based on diagnosis-related group in which patients' treatment is classified (see H.R. 5859)

———eliminate increase in part A deductible and coinsurance effected by Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (see H.R. 6075)

———exempting older workers and their employers from taxes under hospital insurance program (see H.R. 5723)

———flexible billing and payment arrangements for substitute physicians on occasional basis (see H.R. 6357)

———hospital prospective payment system (see H.R. 4903)

———hospital prospective payment system for inpatient services (see H.R. 5006)

———hospitals in high wage areas (see S. 2352; H.R. 4961, 5657)

———intra-HMO competition demonstration project (see H.R. 5862)

———limit increase in hospital costs to increase of marketbasket of hospital costs (see H.R. 5857)

———payment for physicians who accept assignment for all patients (see H.R. 5860)

———payment levels for hospice care (see H.R. 5141)

———payment rates for hospice care (see S. 2725; H.R. 5386)

———permanent waiver for 24-hour nursing requirement for certain rural hospitals (see H.R. 5273, 5274)

———permit group health care payors to provide for alternative rates with providers of medical care (see H.R. 5861)

———permit negotiated rates with preferred provider organizations (see H.R. 5861)

———physician payment request provided to patient (see H.R. 4856)

———prohibit reevaluation of facilities and equipment for depreciation and interest purposes (see H.R. 5408)

———prohibit revaluation of hospital facilities and equipment for depreciation and interest purposes (see H.R. 5195)

———rationalize payment amount under DRG-payment system (see H.R. 5858)

———reciprocal agreements on health care services outside U.S. (see H.R. 4767)

———restore solvency of program and enhance coverage and benefits (see S. 2752)

———reverse present upward trend in poverty rate (see H.R. 4920)

———services by nurse anesthetists (see H.R. 4683)

———single prospective payment rate for hospitals (see H.R. 4693)

———single prospective payment rate for hospitals in urban and rural areas (see H.R. 5255)

———solvency of program (see S. 2424; H.R. 4870)

Medicare/medicaid: hospital requirements for swing-bed services (see H.R. 6367)

———protection against malpractice and fraud (see H.R. 5989)

———protection of patients from treatment by incompetent or dangerous practitioners (see S. 2744)

National Adult Day Care Center Week (see S.J. Res. 269; H.J. Res. 505)

National Home Care Week (see S.J. Res. 237; H.J. Res. 525)

National Senior Citizens Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 541)

Nurse anesthetists: medicare reimbursement (see H.R. 4683)

Nutrition programs: improvements (see S. 2607)

Older Americans Act: amend (see H.R. 5325)

———appropriations for supportive services and senior centers (see H.R. 5265)

———authorizing appropriations (see S. 2603; H.R. 4785, 5414)

———multipurpose senior centers education and training (see H.R. 5415)

Older Americans Month (see S.J. Res. 255; H.J. Res. 466)

Pension benefit accruals: application to employees over 65 years (see H.R. 5387)

Physicians: reduction in fees (see H. Con. Res. 267)

Public safety officers and firefighters: entry and retirement ages (see S. 2540)

Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands: VA authority to waive certain restrictions on provision of health care (see H.R. 5551)

Railroad Retirement Act: survivors' annuities to certain employees (see H.R. 5704)

Reserve officers: active status until age 60 for certain technicians (see H.R. 6158)

Retirement benefits: determination of exclusion from modified adjusted gross income of interest (see H.R. 6128)

———preventing cutbacks in benefits upon merger or consolidation of plans or transfers of assets or liabilities between plans (see H.R. 5475)

Senior Center Week (see S.J. Res. 217; H.R. 4916)

Senior Companion program: commendation on 10th anniversary (see S. Con. Res. 124; H. Con. Res. 333)

Social security: annual effective date for cost-of-living increases (see H.R. 6126)

———correction of benefit disparity known as the notch problem (see H. Con. Res. 279)

———cost-of-living increase for 1985 without regard to 3% threshold (see S. 2868, 2873; H.R. 6019)

———cost-of-living increases (see H.R. 6299)

———deductions for outside earnings (see H.R. 5049)

———delegation of authority to independent agency to administer old-age, survivors, and disability insurance (see S. 2922)

———delegations of authority to independent agency to administer old-age, survivors, and disability insurance (see S. 2778; H.R. 5904)

———eliminate 3 percent threshold for cost-of-living increases (see S. 2923; H.R. 6126)

———eliminate disparity for individuals who retired in 1979 or later (see H.R. 5106)

———eliminate disparity for individuals who retired in or after 1979 (see H.R. 5005)

———eliminate disparity in benefits resulting from changes made in 1977 and affecting individuals retired in or after 1979 (see S. 2644)

———eliminate disparity resulting from 1977 changes made in benefit computation formula and remove ceiling on individual's income (see H.R. 5595)

———limitation on outside income (see H.R. 4976)

———national lottery to finance retirement and medicare programs (see H.R. 6278)

———overpayment provision (see H.R. 5411)

———proportionate payment of benefit for month in which the recipient dies (see H.R. 5110)

———remove limitation on outside income (see H.R. 6095)

———tax exemption on benefits (see S. 2970)

Social services: funding under block grant program (see S. 2492)

Taxation (see H.R. 5015)

———credit for maintaining households for related elderly (see H.R. 4586)

———deduction as dependent (see H.R. 6336)

———dependent care expenses (see H.R. 6150)

———exemption on social security benefits (see S. 2970)

———home equity conversions through sale leaseback transactions (see H.R. 5302)

———one-time exclusion of gain on sale of property used in a trade or business (see H.R. 5289)

———treatment of retirement income for two-earner married couples (see H.R. 5487)

Telephones: lifeline service (see H.R. 4844)

Terminal care facilities: medicare payment rates for hospice care (see S. 2725)

Veterans: exclusion of payments received for employment for determination of benefit levels for nonservice-connected disability pensions (see H.R. 5208)

———revise requirements for reports on adequacy of per diem rates for payments made to States providing domiciliary, nursing home, and hospital care (see H.R. 5225)

———VA authority to waive certain restrictions on provision of health care in Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands (see H.R. 5551)

Court decisions

Social security disability benefits eligibility, 6591 [27MR]

Descriptions

Medicare provisions modifications, 12651 [17MY]

Explanations

Discrimination prohibition in federally assisted programs (S. 2568), 9255-9257 [12AP]

Retirement Equity for Spouses of Federal Employees (H.R. 6273), 26199 [19SE]

Factsheets

Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program Administration by Independent Agency (S. 2778), 17577 [20JN]

Inscription

Award presented to Senate by National Senior Citizen Hall of Fame, 10486 [1MY]

Letters

Aged and poverty issues: Gabor Szikszai, 32591 [12OC]

Authorize service pension for World War I veterans (H.R. 1918): Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A., Inc., 3297 [23FE]

Cost estimate over food stamp authorization in H.R. 5151, Hunger Relief Act (sundry), 21449 [27JY]

Eliminate inequitable notch in the current social security benefit formula (H.R. 4093) (sundry), 944 [30JA]

Establishing position of Assistant Commissioner of Indian Programs: Dept. of HHS, 14216 [24MY]

Funding housing programs: National Low Income Housing Coalition, 17836 [21JN]

Funding of library services for aged: Dept. of HHS, 14210 [24MY]

Hospice care: Kathleen Hart, 31942 [11OC]

———Senator Roth, 31941 [11OC]

Medicaid provisions: George C. Wallace, Governor of Alabama, 12689 [17MY]

———Harry R. Hughes, Governor of Maryland (sundry), 12681, 12685 [17MY]

———National Conference of State Legislatures, 12678 [17MY]

———National Governors' Association, 12679 [17MY]

———62 organizations, 12678 [17MY]

———U.S. Conference of Mayors, 12679 [17MY]

Medicare premium deductibles: AFL-CIO, 11522 [9MY]

———Health Security Action Council, 11522 [9MY]

———National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare, 11520 [9MY]

———National Council of Senior Citizens, 11522 [9MY]

Military retirees, 32535 [12OC]

OMB revised rules regarding lobbying and related activities: Select Committee on Aging, 335 [24JA]

Overcharging by hospitals: L. E. Workman (excerpt), 22364 [3AU]

Senior environmental employment demonstration project: William D. Ruckelshaus, 17836 [21JN]

Social Security Administration Board of Trustees appointments: Senator Moynihan, 20792 [25JY]

———White House, 20792 [25JY]

Social security disability benefits eligibility (sundry), 6596, 6598 [27MR]

Social security is in good shape, 5945 [20MR]

Social services for Indian tribes: Dept. of HHS, 14216 [24MY]

Solicitation letter to constituents from alleged fraudulent group, the National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare: James Roosevelt (excerpt), 8464 [9AP]

Success of Older Americans Act programs: congressional constituent (excerpt), 10139 [26AP]

Support for Retirement Equity Act (H.R. 4280): Older Women's League, 13329 [22MY]

Voting accessibility for the elderly and handicapped: Michael E. Lavelle, Association of Election Commission Officials of Illinois, 18494 [25JN]

Wage discrimination: Gloria Martin, 30257 [4OC]

Lists

Long-term care gerontology centers, 187 [24JA], 188 [24JA]

Organizations supporting social service block grant program funding increases, 7096 [29MR]

Supporters of S. 2568, prohibiting discrimination in federally assisted programs, 9257 [12AP]

Wisconsin's 10 most admired senior citizens, 21757 [1AU]

Mailgrams

Medicare premium deductibles: American Association of Retired Persons, 11522 [9MY]

Memorials of legislature

California, 20702 [24JY], 21386 [27JY], 24534 [6SE], 25008, 25010 [12SE], 28144 [1OC], 29853, 29855, 29859 [4OC]

Georgia, 9757 [24AP], 10343 [30AP]

Massachusetts, 20550 [23JY]

Pennsylvania, 13048 [21MY]

Rhode Island, 10343 [30AP]

Messages

Annual Report of Federal Council on the Aging: President Reagan, 11088 [7MY]

Report of the Administration on Aging: President Reagan, 2901 [22FE]

Pamphlets

Counseling Older Clients, Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly, 1806 [3FE]

Papers

Crime Against the Elderly in the U.S.: American Association of Retired Persons, 997 [31JA]

Food Stamp Program, 21437 [27JY]

Future Deficit Reduction—Impact on Aged and Poor: House Select Committee on Aging, 29614-29616 [3OC]

Petitions

Accessibility to registration and polling places: International Institute of Municipal Clerks, 21387 [27JY]

Civil Rights Act (H.R. 5490): New York, NY, City Council, 18999 [26JN]

Cost-of-living adjustments in social security benefits (H.R. 6019): National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare, 26639 [24SE]

Medicare: New York, NY, City Council, 6651 [27MR]

Medicare: Michigan Council of Senior Citizens, Inc., 21385 [27JY]

Registration and voting accessibility for aged and handicapped (H.R. 1250): Municipal Clerks of Illinois, IL, 19642 [28JN]

Proclamations

American Association of Retired Persons Day: Charles S. Robb, Governor of Virginia, 4729 [6MR]

Designate Retired Federal Employees Week in Tennessee: Lamar Alexander (Governor of Tennessee), 9675 [24AP]

Remarks in House

Abuse victims, 1459 [2FE]

Action Agency: tribute to the Senior Companion Program, 10802 [2MY], 28177 [1OC]

Age discrimination: eliminate mandatory retirement and other forms (H.R. 6233), 25201 [12SE]

———prevent in workplace (H.R. 5346), 13999 [23MY]

Age Discrimination Act: clarify applications of certain titles (H.R. 5490), 17710-17713 [21JN], 18468 [22JN], 18515-18536 [25JN], 18620 [25JN], 18835-18881 [26JN], 18999 [26JN], 23179, 23181 [8AU], 28816 [2OC]

———clarify applications of certain titles (H.R. 5490), technical corrections, 18881 [26JN]

Age Discrimination in Employment Act: amend (H.R. 5387), 8269 [5AP]

Alzheimer's disease: research, 17644 [21JN]

American Association of Homes for the Aging: Spring conference, 6314 [21MR]

American Association of Retired Persons: release of ``Consumer Statement of Principles for the Nursing Home Regulatory System—State Licensure and Federal Certification Programs'', 1959 [6FE]

Asbestos: new senior jobs program in schools, 20444 [29JN]

Benefits and services: reduce paperwork required (H.R. 5955), 20374 [29JN]

Chicago, IL: Senior Employment Opportunities' placement service for older workers, 10035 [25AP]

CIA Spouses Retirement Equity Act: amend (H.R. 5805), 15360 [7JN]

Civil rights: Supreme Court decision making seniority prevalent in layoffs, 17215 [19JN]

Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare: mailings to senior citizens, 9635 [12AP]

Community Nursing Centers Act: enact (H.R. 4865), 2812 [21FE], 4830 [7MR]

Disabled and older persons: health care, 5244 [13MR]

``Doctor's Story'': tribute to television show, 10031 [25AP]

Drug Price Competition Act: enact, 26925 [25SE]

Employee Retirement Income Security Act: anniversary observance, 28152 [1OC]

———pension plan management, 30742 [5OC]

EPA: assure continuation of the Senior Environmental Employment Corps program (S. 518), 13557, 14368 [24MY]

Falls Church, VA: Sleepy Hollow Senior Center, 32563 [12OC]

Family violence: issues and proposals, 24113 [10AU]

Federal employees: broaden eligibility requirements for retirement benefits (H.R. 5935), 19422 [27JN]

———provide for retirement equity for spouse (H.R. 6273), 26199 [19SE]

Federal retirement: provide for equity, 23492 [10AU]

Florida's Silver-Haired Legislature: tribute, 30287 [4OC], 32566 [12OC]

Food stamp program: medical expense deductions, 21950 [1AU]

Foreign Service Act: amend (H.R. 5197), 6054 [20MR]

Generic drugs: reform marketing procedures, 24577 [6SE]

Grandparent's rights: visitation, 1157 [31JA]

Health care: cost, 9414 [12AP]

Health care costs: impact of rising, 23607 [9AU]

Health insurance: age rating, 31711 [10OC]

Holland, MI: establishment of a new senior citizen center, 12099 [14MY]

Home care: tax credit (H.R. 3797), 14406 [30MY]

Home Care Week: designate (H.J. Res. 525), 8470 [9AP]

Home equity conversions: facilitate through sale-leaseback transactions (H.R. 5302), 6958 [29MR]

Homeless: efforts to help, 10727 [2MY]

———statistics, 10728 [2MY]

Hospice movement: tribute, 1374 [1FE]

Hospital insurance program: exempt older employees from taxes (H.R. 5723), 14351 [24MY]

Human Services Reauthorization Act: enact (S. 2565), 32526 [12OC]

Individual retirement accounts: taxation issues, 20554 [23JY]

Institutionalization: implement personal emergency response systems to reduce, 23599 [9AU]

Jackson County, MO: tribute to the Foster Grandparent program, 15522 [7JN]

Justice Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 2175), 21741 [31JY]

Lamm, Richard D. (Governor of Colorado): response to statement relative to terminally ill older persons, 6972 [29MR], 7288 [2AP]

Leadership: history of civilizations depending on elders, 31341 [10OC]

Leesburg, VA: observance of Nursing Week, 28805 [2OC]

Meals on Wheels of the Monterey Peninsula, Inc.: relief (H.R. 1561), 28448 [2OC]

Medicaid: program changes, 9405 [12AP]

Medical services: protect against fraudulent, 21714 [31JY]

Medicare: ambulette services (H.R. 6274), 26193 [19SE]

———amend definition of term ``physician'' (H.R. 5641), 11956 [10MY]

———anniversary of legislation enactment, 24089 [10AU]

———beneficiary law, 20396 [29JN]

———financial stability, 31340 [10OC]

———health maintenance organizations (H.R. 4040), 16440 [14JN]

———improve and extend prospective payment system (H.R. 4903), 3065, 3067 [22FE]

———improve (H.R. 4040), 16440 [14JN]

———improving efficacy of program, 22364 [3AU]

———payment rates for hospice care (H.R. 5386), 8000 [5AP]

———physician fees for inpatient services, 9386-9393, 9414, 9441-9451 [12AP]

———program changes, 9405 [12AP]

———provide benefits to those living and traveling abroad (H.R. 4767), 2175 [7FE]

———reimbursements, 19463 [27JN]

———require physician to provide copy of request for reimbursement to patient (H.R. 4856), 2401 [9FE]

———solvency, 23607 [9AU]

Medicare Benefit Improvement and Cost Containment Act: enact (H.R. 4040), 16440 [14JN]

Medicare Long-Term Care Act: enact (H.R. 5726), 14354 [24MY]

Medicare/Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act: enact, 15975 [12JN], 20184 [29JN], 20446 [29JN]

Military retirement benefits: provide that recipients not be credited with civil service retirement benefits in addition (H.R. 6116), 24131 [10AU]

Military widows: survivor annuity provisions in retirement plans, 9581 [12AP]

Mobile Meals and Meals on Wheels: tribute, 25409 [13SE]

Mondale, Walter F.: social security policy, 30925 [9OC], 31431 [10OC]

National Adult Day Care Center Week: designate (H.J. Res. 505), 23026 [8AU]

National Alzheimer's Disease Month: designate (H.J. Res. 451), 435 [25JA], 10548 [1MY]

National Commission on the Civil Service Retirement System: establish, 20428 [29JN]

National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare: controversial petition, 6988 [29MR], 7879 [4AP], 8464 [9AP], 10923 [3MY], 12579-12589 [16MY], 13982 [23MY], 26521 [24SE], 29313 [3OC]

———monitor activities, 21068 [25JY]

———response to membership drive letter, 6350 [22MR]

National Employ the Older Worker Week: designate (S.J. Res. 205), 5518 [14MR]

National Home Care Week (S.J. Res. 237), 28694 [2OC]

National Hospice Month: designate (H.J. Res. 621), 20385 [29JN]

———designate (S.J. Res. 234), 25161 [12SE]

National Nursing Home Residents Day: designate (H.J. Res. 457), 652 [26JA], 10230 [26AP], 10611 [1MY]

———designate (S.J. Res. 198), 10549 [1MY]

National Nursing Home Week: observance, 12976 [18MY]

National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act: enact (H.R. 4684), 27814 [28SE]

National Service Life Insurance: premium rates capped, 6958 [29MR]

New York, NY: tribute to Chinatown Senior Citizen Coalition Center, 14400 [24MY]

Nursing homes: family responsibility for cost sharing (H. Con. Res. 134), 18619 [25JN]

Older Americans Act: appropriations (H.R. 4785), conference report, 27797 [28SE]

———authorizing appropriations (H.R. 4785), 2664 [9FE], 6789 [27MR], 20765 [24JY], 22389 [6AU], 22408-22413 [6AU], 23032, 23066 [8AU], 24185 [10AU], 27349 [2OC]

———authorizing appropriations (H.R. 4785), S. 2603 passed in lieu, 23036 [8AU]

———authorizing appropriations (S. 2603), appointment of conferees, 23036 [8AU]

———authorizing appropriations (S. 2603), conference report, 27337 [26SE]

———program funds, 21902 [1AU]

———reauthorize (H.R. 5325), 7625 [3AP]

Older Americans Month: designate (H.J. Res. 466), 2320 [8FE]

———observance, 9623 [12AP], 10498 [1MY], 11475 [8MY], 11957 [10MY], 12363, 12364 [15MY], 12870 [17MY], 14387 [24MY]

Older Americans of Knox County: tribute, 9052 [11AP]

Pension Plan Reversion Moratorium Act: enact (H.R. 5168), 5809 [15MR]

Personal emergency response systems: implement to reduce institutionalization, 23599 [9AU]

Pharmaceutical assistance: provide optional program under medicaid program (H.R. 5977), 20413 [29JN]

Police and fire fighters: pension plan adjustments (H.R. 4934), 3308 [23FE]

Public Employee Pension Plan Reporting and Accountability Act: enact (H.R. 5144), 5803 [15MR]

Puerto Rico: increase Federal share of Medicaid programs, 9405 [12AP]

Railroad retirees: taxation of benefits (H.R. 5139), 5581 [14MR]

Railroad retirement equity: provide (H.R. 5013), 4234 [1MR]

Reagan, President: policy, 30923 [9OC]

———social security policy, 7572-7579 [3AP], 30923 [9OC], 31340 [10OC]

Retired Enlisted Association, Inc.: grant a national charter, 26187 [19SE]

Retirement Equity Act: enact (H.R. 4280), 8616 [10AP], 13316-13346 [22MY], 31092 [9OC]

Retirement pensions: prohibit freezing of certain, 3553 [28FE]

———protect rights in collective bargaining agreements (H.R. 6187), 25406 [13SE]

Sacramento, CA: tribute to Asian Community Nursing Home, 2160 [7FE]

San Francisco, CA: Retired Senior Volunteer program, 18469 [22JN]

SBA: tribute to the Service Corps of Retired Executives, 15264 [6JN]

Senior Citizens Appreciation Day: observance, 22078 [1AU]

Senior Citizen's Day: observance, 12356 [15MY]

Senior Citizens Tax Improvement Act: enact (S. 2257), 4840 [7MR]

Senior Companion Program: anniversary commemoration, 19423 [27JN]

———anniversary (H. Con. Res. 333), 20345 [29JN], 24924 [11SE]

———commend Kentucky participants, 24074 [10AU]

Service Corps of Retired Executives: anniversary observance, 29650 [3OC]

Small hospitals: increase size of hospitals which may participate in swing-bed programs, 5405 [13MR]

Social Security: administration's budgetary recommendations, 11965 [10MY]

———benefits discrepancies, 1377 [1FE]

———cost-of-living adjustment, 21646 [31JY], 28452 [2OC]

———cost-of-living adjustments (H.R. 6019), 21230 [26JY], 21369 [26JY], 21430 [27JY], 23191 [8AU], 24114, 24178 [10AU], 26638, 26641 [24SE]

———cost-of-living adjustments (H.R. 6299), 28453 [2OC], 28461 [2OC], 28462 [2OC], 30754 [5OC]

———eligibility review procedure, 3552 [28FE]

———eliminate ``notch'' problem (H.R. 4093), 22060 [1AU]

———establish as independent agency, 15882 [12JN], 16298 [13JN]

———financial solvency of trust fund, 8794 [11AP]

———history of budgeting, 32550 [12OC]

———impact of Republican Party policies, 24503 [6SE]

———implement moratorium on disability benefits review process, 12982 [21MY]

———investigate circulation of letter concerning solvency, 11906 [10MY]

———overpayment provision (H.R. 5411), 8483 [10AP]

———proposed conversion from a universal to a limited coverage benefit program, 12039 [14MY]

———prorate benefits (H.R. 5110), 5871 [19MR]

———provisions discriminatory to women, 2804 [21FE]

———question of credibility concerning projected benefits reduction, 31342 [10OC]

———reform review process prior to termination of certain disability benefits, 3273-3285 [23FE]

———status, 31424 [10OC]

———solvency, 24906 [11SE], 31344, 31345 [10OC]

———taxation of benefits (H.R. 6128), 24156 [10AU]

Social Security Administration: establish as independent agency (H.R. 5904), 17619 [20JN], 23188 [8AU]

Social Security Disability Benefits Reform Act: enact (H.R. 3755), 6335, 6346 [22MR], 6576-6581, 6583-6622 [27MR]

South Carolina: tribute to Meals on Wheels volunteers, 25944 [18SE]

SSI: improve, 9413 [12AP]

———improve program (H.R. 5341), 7618 [3AP], 12097 [14MY]

———special benefits program, 1775 [2FE]

Subminimum wage: proposed, 12754 [17MY]

Swing bed program: maintain quality level (H.R. 6367), 28797 [2OC]

Unemployment compensation: correct certain inequities (H.R. 5647), 11938 [10MY]

VA: authorize State acquisition and renovation of existing nursing homes (H.R. 5412), 8516 [10AP]

Veterans' health care, pensions, and compensation: provide adequate coverage and attention, 24165 [10AU]

Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act: enact (H.R. 1250), 18492 [25JN], 18498 [26JN]-18499 [25JN], 18998 [26JN]

———enact (H.R. 5762), 20431 [29JN]

Westchester County, NY: Salute to Senior Citizens, 13992 [23MY]

———tribute to the Foster Grandparent program, 15242 [6JN]

Women: insure pensions equity, 13316-13346 [22MY]

World War I veterans: authorize service pension (H.R. 1918), 3297 [23FE]

Remarks in Senate

ACTION Agency: commend senior companion program (S. Con. Res. 124), 16672 [15JN]

Age Discrimination Act: clarify applications of certain titles (H.R. 5490), 19209 [27JN], 20469 [23JY]

———clarify applications of certain titles (H.R. 5490), second reading pending, 19334 [27JN]

Age Discrimination in Employment Act: amend relative to public safety officers (S. 2540), 8090 [5AP]

Alzheimer's disease: provide for assistance to certain victims (S. 2221), 593 [26JA]

———provide for treatment by VA (S. 2220), 593 [26JA]

———provide tax deductions for dependent care (S. 2222), 593 [26JA]

———supportive services, 14213 [24MY]

Alzheimer's Disease Research Coordination Act: introduction (S. 2946), 23338 [9AU]

American Association of Homes for the Aging: honors Senator Heinz, 5765 [15MR]

Beshore, Margaret: tribute, 5151 [12MR]

Blansett, Richard and Eva: congressional senior intern program participant, 12475 [16MY]

Budget: President Reagan's deficit reduction policy, 31134 [10OC]

Burns, Lela: tribute, 6180 [21MR]

Cherrington, Maurine: tribute, 6180 [21MR]

Children: program for educationally disadvantaged (S. 2310), 2523 [9FE], 3183 [23FE]

Civil rights: impact of restoring prohibition effectiveness in federally assisted programs (S. 2568), 32444 [12OC]

Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly: tribute, 1806 [3FE]

Congregate housing: funding, 17815-17817 [21JN]

Crimes committed against, 997-999 [31JA]

Dept. of HHS: testing of home emergency response systems (S. 2941), 23334 [9AU]

Derry, PA, Senior Citizens Council: tribute, 29240 [3OC]

Developments in Aging—1983: print additional (S. Res. 355), 6696 [27MR], 7194 [30MR]

Discrimination: restore prohibition effectiveness in federally assisted programs (S. 2568), 9254, 9258-9275 [12AP], 17874 [21JN], 23369 [9AU], 23854 [10AU], 25794 [18SE], 29228 [3OC], 32444 [12OC]

Domestic spending programs: funding, 12658-12662 [17MY]

EEOC: transfer of functions, 24776 [11SE]

Equal Employment Opportunity Enforcement Reorganization Act: introduction (S. 2985), 24776-24777 [11SE]

Geriatric Manpower Act: introduction (S. 3009), 26036 [19SE]

Geriatrics: advancements made by VA, 26292 [20SE]

———funding for training, 26036 [19SE]

———funding for training (S. 3035), 27683 [28SE]

Grein, Thelma: tribute, 15627 [11JN]

Health care, 26291 [20SE]

Health maintenance organizations: medicare coverage of clinical psychologist services, 9127 [12AP]

Health Services, Preventive Health Services, and Home and Community-Based Services Act: enact (S. 2301), House amendments, 30808-30811 [9OC]

Home Care Protection Act: introduction (S. 2338), 3152-3154 [23FE]

Homemakers' Equity Act: introduction (S. 2322), 2909 [22FE]

Hospice care: maintain current payment methodology, 28363 [2OC]

Housing: provide for aged, 14213 [24MY]

Immigrant Repatriation Study Act: introduction (S. 2402), 4914 [8MR]

Indians: social services for aged, 14215 [24MY]

Individual retirement accounts: tax incentives for homemakers, 2909 [22FE]

Jinks, Harold: congressional senior intern program participant, 19705 [28JN]

Law enforcement: exempt State personnel from certain employment discrimination regulations (S. 2425), 5452 [14MR]

Libraries: increase services to aged, 14209 [24MY]

Lodge, Holly: congressional senior intern program participant, 19705 [28JN]

Long-term care gerontology centers: tribute, 187 [24JA]

Lorain County, OH: tribute to retired senior volunteer program, 26052 [19SE]

McCann, Patricia: congressional senior intern program participant, 11993 [11MY]

Medicaid: modify provisions, 12677, 12680-12694 [17MY]

Medicare: alternative liability system for medical malpractice (S. 2690), 12732 [17MY]

———benefits eligibility, 11527-11529 [9MY]

———coverage of catastrophic illnesses (S. 2895), 21625-21627 [31JY]

———coverage of posthospital home health services, 9216 [12AP]

———financial reform, 2476 [9FE], 12005 [11MY], 12461 [16MY], 14152 [24MY], 15564 [8JN]

———health maintenance organizations, 13302 [22MY]

———modify provisions, 11232 [8MY], 12419-12422 [16MY], 12650-12657, 12662 [17MY]

———payment rates for hospice care (S. 2725), 14948 [5JN]

———premium deductibles, 11248 [8MY], 11511-11527 [9MY], 12652-12657 [17MY]

———prospective payment system, 13299 [22MY]

———provide coverage for services of mental health professionals (S. 2339), 3155 [23FE]

———recertification of need for certain services by nurse practitioners (S. 2938), 23331 [9AU]

———State reimbursement formula, 5157 [12MR]

Medicare Incentives Reform Act: introduction (S. 2752), 16012 [13JN]

Medicare Preferred Provider Arrangement Act: introduction (S. 2502), 7109 [29MR]

Medicare Solvency and Health Care Financing Reform Act: enact (S. 2424), 21540 [30JY]

———enact (S. 2424), referred to committee, 5381 [13MR]

———introduction (S. 2424), 5356-5367 [13MR]

Medicare/medicaid: protection of patients from treatment by incompetent or dangerous practitioners (S. 2744), 15535-15537, 15546 [8JN]

Minnesota Institutional care: status, 20170 [29JN]

Multiemployer Pension Plan—Termination Insurance Reform Act: introduction (S. 2329), 2920 [22FE]

National Adult Day Care Center Week: designate (H.J. Res. 505), 25665 [17SE]

———designate (S.J. Res. 269), 7742 [4AP]

National Alzheimer's Disease Month: designate (H.J. Res. 451), 13250 [22MY]

———designate (S.J. Res. 290), 11283-11284 [8MY]

National Commission on Social Security Reform: implementation of recommendations, 5945 [20MR]

National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare: activities, 15620 [11JN]

National Employ the Older Worker Week: designate (S.J. Res. 205), 3485, 3486 [27FE]

———observance, 5151 [12MR]

National eye care project: tribute to American Academy of Ophthalmology, 1787 [3FE]

National Home Care Week: designate (S.J. Res. 237), 2538 [9FE], 5161 [12MR]

National Nursing Home Residents Day: designate (S.J. Res. 198), 3850 [29FE], 9859 [25AP]

———designate (S.J. Res. 198), House amendments, 11755 [10MY]

National Senior Citizen Hall of Fame: presentation of award to Senate, 10486 [1MY]

National Social Work Month: designate (S.J. Res. 112), 3482 [27FE]

Nursing homes: interest-free loan provisions of Deficit Reduction Tax Act, 32099, 32100 [11OC]

Ohio Senior Citizen Hall of Fame: inductees, 28438 [2OC]

Older Americans Act: authorizing appropriations (S. 2603), 10134-10142 [26AP], 10722 [2MY], 12924 [18MY], 14205-14217 [24MY], 14959 [5JN], 23808 [10AU], 27757 [28SE]

———authorizing appropriations (S. 2603), conference report, 26956-26964 [26SE]

———Presidential signature ceremony of Amendments (S. 2603), 30849 [9OC]

———statutory cap on certain costs of senior community service employment program, 14959 [5JN]

Older Americans Month: designate (H.J. Res. 466), 8730 [11AP]

———designate (S.J. Res. 255), 4765 [7MR], 5469 [14MR]

Pensions: modify regulations governing multiemployer plans, 2920 [22FE]

Police and firefighters: tax exemptions for certain pension funds (S. 2305), 2519 [9FE]

Retired Federal Employees Week in Tennessee: observance, 9675 [24AP]

Scioto County, OH: opening of senior center, 27956 [1OC]

Senior Center Week: designate, 904 [30JA]

———designate (S.J. Res. 217), 680 [27JA], 5161 [12MR]

Senior Citizens Tax Improvement Act: introduction (S. 2257), 1875 [6FE]

Senior Companion Program: commendation on 10th anniversary (S. Con. Res. 124), 17195 [19JN], 17604 [20JN]

Senior Health Action Day: observance, 25280 [13SE]

Service Corps of Retired Executives: anniversary, 25068 [12SE]

Sikes, Arnold: congressional senior intern program participant, 19705 [28JN], 20174 [29JN]

Social Security: cost-of-living adjustment (H.R. 1428), 21163-21165 [26JY], 21380 [27JY], 21817 [1AU], 22714 [8AU]

———cost-of-living adjustment (H.R. 1428), withdrawal of motion for reconsideration, 21644 [31JY]

———cost-of-living increases (H.R. 6299), 31949-31951 [11OC]

———delegation of authority to independent agency to administer old-age, survivors, and disability insurance (S. 2922), 22840 [8AU]

———delegation of authority to independent agency to administer old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program (S. 2778), 17576, 17584 [20JN]

———disregard 3 percent threshold on cost-of-living increase (S. 2923), 22845 [8AU]

———disregard 3-percent threshold on cost-of-living increase (S. 2873), 21189 [26JY]

———eliminate disparity in benefits resulting from changes made in 1977 and affecting individuals who retired in, or after, 1979 (S. 2644), 16028 [13JN], 17193 [19JN]

———participation by employees of religious organizations, 56 [23JA]

———President Reagan's budget deficit reduction, 31134 [10OC]

———provide for issuance of certificate of guaranteed tax-exempt benefits (S. 2970), 24394 [6SE]

———taxation of benefits, 9087-9096, 9225 [12AP], 17192 [19JN]

Social Security Administration: appointments to Board of Trustees, 20785-20787, 20792 [25JY]

Social Security Administrative Reorganization Act: introduction (S. 2922), 22840 [8AU]

Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act: introduction (S. 2923), 22845 [8AU]

Social Security Disability Benefits Reform Act: enact (H.R. 3755), 6866 [28MR]

———enact (H.R. 3755), debate procedure, 9642 [24AP]

Social Security Disability Determination Reform Act: introduction (S. 2369), 3804 [29FE]

Social security trust fund: financial solvency, 1881 [6FE], 5945 [20MR], 6437 [22MR], 7506 [3AP], 7897 [4AP], 8254 [5AP], 20785-20787 [25JY]

Social services: funding under block grant program (S. 2492), 7095 [29MR]

Stockman, David A.: interpretation of statistics on poverty level, 29237 [3OC]

Toledo, OH: tribute to retired senior volunteer program, 25802 [18SE]

Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act: enact (H.R. 1250), 19636 [28JN], 23779 [10AU]

Westacott, Florence: tribute, 6180 [21MR]

Westerland, Bart: congressional senior intern program participant, 19705 [28JN]

Wilson, Charles: congressional senior intern program participant, 11993 [11MY]

Wisconsin: naming of 10 most admired senior citizens, 21757 [1AU]

World War I Veterans' Service Pension Act: introduction (S. 2274), 2262 [8FE]

Reports

Alleviate Hunger in U.S. by Strengthening Federal Nutrition Programs: Committee on Rules (H.R. 5151; H. Res. 517) (S. Rept. 98-825), 15194 [6JN]

Amend and Extend Library Services and Construction Act: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2490), 13525 [23MY]

Amend ERISA and Internal Revenue Code: Committee on Education and Labor (H. Rept. 98-655, Pt. I), 8005 [5AP]

Amend Older Americans Act: Committee on Education and Labor (H.R. 4785) (H. Rept. 98-738), 11666 [9MY]

Amend Public Health Service Act Relating to Primary Health Care Services: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2308) (S. Rept. 98-490), 14832 [4JN]

Anti-Discrimination Effectiveness in Federally Assisted Programs (S. 2568): Dept. of Justice, 17875-17882 [21JN]

Appropriations: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2603) (S. Rept. 98-467), 12923 [18MY]

Conference: S. 2946, Alzheimer's Disease Research Coordination Act, 28734 [2OC]

———S. 2603, Older Americans Act Appropriations, 26097-26110 [19SE]

Crime and the Elderly: Bureau of Justice Statistics (excerpt), 999 [31JA]

———White House Conference on Aging (excerpt), 999 [31JA]

Designate May 1984 as ``Older Americans Month'' (H.J. Res. 466): Committee on the Judiciary, 8083 [5AP]

Developments in Aging, 1983: Committee on Aging (Special) (S. Rept. 98-360), 3801 [29FE]

District of Columbia Retired Judges Judicial Service Procedures: Committee on the District of Columbia (H.R. 6007) (H. Rept. 98-910), 21056 [25JY]

Education and Federal Financial Assistance Act Amendments: Committee on Rules (H.R. 5490; H. Res. 528) (H. Rept. 98-848), 17066 [19JN]

Employee Retirement Income Security Act Amendment Regarding Benefit Improvement: Committee on Finance (H.R. 4280) (S. Rept. 98-575), 22121 [2AU], 22512 [6AU]

Establish an Independent Social Security Administration Governed by a Bipartisan Board, 17620 [20JN]

Expanded Federal Authority Needed To Protect Medicare and Medicaid Patients: GAO, 15536 [8JN]

Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendment and Reauthorization: Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (H.R. 4567) (H. Rept. 98-763), 12321 [15MY]

Long-Range Projections of Social Security Trust Fund Operations in Dollars: Social Security Administration, 7507-7511 [3AP]

Meeting the Crisis in Institutional Care—Toward Better Choices, Financing, and Results: Citizens League of Minnesota, 20170 [29JN]

National Employ the Older Worker Week (S.J. Res. 205), 3149 [23FE]

National Home Care Week: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S.J. Res. 237), 4901 [8MR]

National Hospice Month: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 334), 23324 [9AU]

National Nursing Home Residents Day: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 198), 9252 [12AP]

Older Americans Act Amendment Authorizing Appropriations: Committee on Rules (H.R. 4785; H. Res. 514) (H. Rept. 98-812), 14688 [31MY]

Older Americans Act Amendments: committee of conference (S. 2603) (H. Rept. 98-1037), 26170 [19SE]

Project OPEN—Organizations Providing for Elderly Needs, 3300 [23FE]

``Quackery, a $10 Billion Scandal'', Authorize Printing: Committee on House Administration (H. Res. 564) (H. Rept. 98-1011), 25183 [12SE]

Registration and Polling Place Accessibility for Federal Elections for Elderly and Handicapped: Committee on House Administration (H.R. 1250) (H. Rept. 98-852), 17728 [21JN]

———Committee on Rules and Administration (H.R. 1250) (S. Rept. 98-590), 23323 [9AU]

Senior Center Week: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S.J. Res. 217), 4901 [8MR]

Rulings of the Chair

Age Discrimination Act: clarify applications of certain titles (H.R. 5490), 18846, 18856, 18859, 18865 [26JN]

Statements

Churches and Social Security: Senator Eagleton, 56 [23JA]

Civil Rights Act Amendment: (excerpt from House committee), 28817 [2OC]

———Senator Hatfield, 29229 [3OC]

Civil Rights in Federally Assisted Programs: Hubert H. Humphrey (1966), 9265 [12AP]

———John F. Kennedy, 9267, 9270 [12AP]

———Lyndon B. Johnson (1965), 9269 [12AP]

Crime Against the Elderly: International Association of Chiefs of Police, 998 [31JA]

Establish the Social Security Administration as an Independent Agency: Ainsworth Brown, 23188 [8AU]

———GAO, 23188 [8AU]

———Kenneth Blaylock, 23188 [8AU]

Health Care for the Elderly: John Fontaine, 26291 [20SE]

Home Health Services: New Jersey home health administrator, 3153 [23FE]

Plan Termination and Reversion Control Act: Representative Roybal, 30715-30719 [5OC]

Programs for Educationally Disadvantaged Children: Dorothy Rich, 2523 [9FE]

Social Security: President Reagan (sundry excerpts), 7573, 7575 [3AP]

Social Security and the COLA: Robert M. Ball, 1881-1883 [6FE]

Social Security Costs: Walter F. Mondale (excerpt), 31433 [10OC]

Social Security Disability Benefits Eligibility: Stephen H. Sachs, 6600 [27MR]

SSI Equitable Improvements and Reform: Older Women's League, 12097 [14MY]

Story

Oh Son, My Tears Are Not for Myself: Representative Pepper, 6972 [29MR]

Studies

Senior Citizen Participation in Programs for Educationally Disadvantaged Children: Sally Newman (excerpt), 2524 [9FE]

Summaries

Health Care Legislation (S. 2501, 2502, 2503, 2504), 7113 [29MR]

Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act (S. 2744), 15541-15546 [8JN]

Medicare Incentives Reform Act (S. 2752), 16013 [13JN]

Medicare Long-Term Care Act (H.R. 5726), 14355 [24MY]

Medicare Reform Proposals, 16441 [14JN]

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (H.R. 5394), 9420 [12AP]

Retirement Equity Act (H.R. 4280), 13334 [22MY]

SSI Equitable Improvement and Reform Amendments (H.R. 5341), 7620 [3AP]

Tables

Authorizing appropriations, as contained in S. 2603, 10139 [26AP]

Central States, southeast and southwest areas health and welfare and pension funds, 30742 [5OC]

Energy prices, 20318 [29JN]

Impact of the national reimbursement rate for medicare for certain States, 5154 [12MR]

Medicare reimbursements for hospice care, 14948 [5JN]

Older Americans Act appropriations (S. 2603), 26961 [26SE]

Summary of Retirement Equity Act (S. 4280), 13326 [22MY]

Testimonies

End Mandatory Retirement: Representative Biaggi, 13999 [23MY]

Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustments: Representative C. W. Bill Young, 25200 [12SE]

Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped: J. Scott Marshall, American Council of the Blind, 23781 [10AU]

———Joe Johnston, 18493 [25JN]

———Leonard Staisey, 18495 [25JN]

———Willard A. Morris, 23781 [10AU]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 333, commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Senior Companion program, 19423 [27JN], 20346 [29JN]

H.J. Res. 451, National Alzheimer's Disease Month, 10549 [1MY]

H.J. Res. 457, National Nursing Home Residents Day, 652 [26JA], 10230 [26AP]

H.J. Res. 466, designate Older Americans Month, 2321 [8FE]

H.J. Res. 505, National Adult Day Care Center Week, 23026 [8AU]

H.R. 1250, Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act, 18492 [25JN], 23779 [10AU]

H.R. 1561, relief of Meals on Wheels of the Monterey Peninsula, Inc., 28448 [2OC]

H.R. 3755, Social Security Disability Benefits Reform Act, 6613-6621 [27MR]

H.R. 4767, providing medicare benefits to those living and traveling abroad, 2176 [7FE]

H.R. 4865, Community Nursing Centers Act, 2812 [21FE]

H.R. 5325, reauthorize Older Americans Act, 7625 [3AP]

H.R. 5386, social security hospice care payment rates, 8000 [5AP]

H.R. 5935, broaden eligibility requirements for retirement benefits for Federal employees, 19422 [27JN]

H.R. 5955, reduce paperwork required for benefits and services, 20375 [29JN]

H.R. 5977, provide optional pharmaceutical assistance program under medicaid program, 20413 [29JN]

H.R. 6299, social security cost-of-living adjustments, 28453 [2OC]

S. 2257, Senior Citizens Tax Improvement Act, 1875 [6FE]

S. 2274, World War I Veterans' Service Pension Act, 2263 [8FE]

S. 2339, medicare coverage for services of mental health professionals, 3155 [23FE]

S. 2369, Social Security Disability Determination Reform Act, 3807-3809 [29FE]

S. 2402, Immigrant Repatriation Study Act, 4914 [8MR]

S. 2424, Medicare Solvency and Health Care Financing Reform Act, 5357-5366 [13MR]

S. 2492, increase in funding of social services block grant program, 7096 [29MR]

S. 2502, Medicare Preferred Provider Arrangement Act, 7111 [29MR]

S. 2540, Age Discrimination in Employment Act amendments relative to public safety officers, 8090 [5AP]

S. 2568, prohibiting discrimination in federally assisted programs, 9257 [12AP]

S. 2603, authorizing appropriations for the Older Americans Act, 10134-10137 [26AP], 14205-14208 [24MY], 23033 [8AU]

S. 2603, authorizing appropriations for the Older Americans Act (excerpt), 10722 [2MY]

S. 2725, medicare payment rate for hospice care, 14948 [5JN]

S. 2744, Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act, 15537-15541 [8JN]

S. 2752, Medicare Incentives Reform Act, 16015-16025 [13JN]

S. 2778, old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program administration by independent agency, 17578-17583 [20JN]

S. 2873, disregard 3-percent threshold on social security cost-of-living increase for social security, 21190 [26JY]

S. 2895, medicare coverage of catastrophic illnesses, 21627-21629 [31JY]

S. 2922, Social Security Administrative Reorganization Act, 22841-22845 [8AU]

S. 2923, Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act, 22846 [8AU]

S. 2938, recertification of need for certain medicare services by nurse practitioners, 23331 [9AU]

S. 2941, Dept. of HHS testing of home emergency response systems, 23334 [9AU]

S. 2946, Alzheimer's Disease Research Coordination Act, 23338 [9AU]

S. 2970, provide for issuance of certificate of guaranteed tax-exempt social security benefits, 24395 [6SE]

S. 2985, Equal Employment Opportunity Enforcement Reorganization Act, 24776 [11SE]

S. 3009, Geriatric Manpower Act, 26037 [19SE]

S. 4280, Retirement Equity Act, 13317-13325 [22MY]

S. Con. Res. 124, commend ACTION Agency's senior companion program, 16672 [15JN]

S.J. Res. 112, National Social Work Month, 3482 [27FE]

S.J. Res. 198, National Nursing Home Residents Day, 9859 [25AP], 10549 [1MY]

S.J. Res. 205, National Employ the Older Worker Week, 3485 [27FE], 5518 [14MR]

S.J. Res. 217, Senior Center Week, 5161 [12MR]

S.J. Res. 237, National Home Care Week, 2538 [9FE], 5161 [12MR], 28694 [2OC]