citizens' centers. Amendments to the Act in 1970, however, added (1) home care, (2) home delivered meals, (3) transportation services, and (4) other access services to the services funded for LTC recipients under Title III of the Older Americans Act.
The need for child day care and the need for elder care stems from two separate problems. The responsibility for addressing each of the problems, however, most often falls to the same group of people--family members of the affected persons.
The average life span in the United States increased from an expected 70 years in 1960 to 79 years in the 1990s. The expected life span for women is greater than that for men. Additionally, the expected life span applied to individuals born in the year for which the statistic is determined--not for those individuals already in their elderly years. A similar life expectancy increase, however, developed with respect to all age
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