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The National Council on Aging (NCOA) was founded in 1950 as the first charitable organization in the U.S. that would advocate for older Americans with service providers and policymakers. [1]
Older Americans Act; Long title: An Act to provide assistance in the development of new or improved programs to help older persons through grants to the States for community planning and services and for training, through research, development, or training project grants, and to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an operating agency to be designated as the ...
The law was amended in 1972 to add Supplemental Security Income, which provides cash assistance to individuals, 65 years of age or older. The passage of The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 further protected the financial rights of older people by prohibiting employers from discriminating against people who are 40 years of age or older.
Presently, there is no international legally binding instrument to protect the human rights of older persons. It is, however, been discussed since 2011 by "The Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing for the Purpose of Strengthening the Protection of the Human Rights of Older Persons" (mostly referred to as the Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing, OEWGA) which was established by United Nations ...
It works with LGBT older adults and aging service providers to address and overcome the challenges of discrimination in older adult service settings. [96] OWL - The Voice of Women 40+ was founded as the Older Women's League by Tish Sommers and Laurie Shields, following the White House Mini-Conference on Older Women in Des Moines, Iowa in ...
Opened in 1974, the El Paso State Supported Living Center answered the community need for a long-term care facility for people with mental challenges in West Texas. The center is home to 150 people who live in eight cottages and three 16-bed units. Located in the City of El Paso and serving El Paso County, the center employs approximately 300 ...
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First Lady of the People's Republic of China; widow of the President of China Li Xiannian [278] David W. Torrance: M: June 22, 1924: 100 years, 194 days: British: Church minister [279] László Fuchs: M: June 24, 1924: 100 years, 192 days: Hungarian-born American: Mathematician [280] Roberto Ledesma: M: June 26, 1924: 100 years, 190 days: Cuban ...