Putting the skids to meals on wheels.
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« ESOLVED ... that in recognition of the selfless service performed, the President is hereby authorized and requested to issue a proclamation designating the week of September 16 through 22, 1979, as `National Meals-on-Wheels Week'.... " With these words, the Congress prepared to celebrate the twentyfifth anniversary of a typically American phenomenon. But only a few weeks earlier, HEW's Administration on Aging (AoA) unveiled draft regulations for a new federal home-delivered meals program which, if left unchanged, threaten to drive meals-on-wheels right off the road. Some birthday present! By any standard, these thousands of neighborhood programs constitute the very model of what has always been valued most in this country: tens of thousands of volunteers identifying a genuine community need, amassing private resources, and meeting that need-with a minimum of bureaucratic fuss and a maximum of effective service. Every day for twenty-five years now, and often twice a day, these local, private, nonprofit programs deliver hot meals (and often essential ties with the outside world) to the homebound. Most of them are old--but they need not be sixty years of age or older. Many pay some or all of the cost of the meals; others pay none.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Regulation
دوره 3 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1979