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- Title
Success: An Original Area Agency on Aging at 50 Years.
- Authors
Skirven, John N.
- Abstract
Tracing the 1960s origins of what became one of the first of nine area agencies on aging in the U.S., led by influential women with ties to local power brokers and driven by poverty and social change movements. Southeastern Virginia Areawide Model Program, Inc. (SEVAMP) was an expansion of Elise Margolius's original vision to create a community-based network of services to assist older adults. After the 1965 passage of the Older Americans Act, funding was secured and what was then the Senior Citizens Service Center opened its doors in 1968.
- Subjects
MEDICAL care for older people; SOCIAL change; AGING; GOVERNMENT agencies; SENIOR centers; RETIREMENT; ENDOWMENTS; ELDER care
- Publication
Generations, 2021, Vol 45, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
0738-7806
- Publication type
Article