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- Title
Coming of Age!
- Authors
Keigher, Sharon M.
- Abstract
This article presents information on old age. The U.N. agenda, established clearly back in 1982, urges the international community to facilitate collaboration across sectors and nations and to reach out to the development community, the media, the private sector and the younger generation in our efforts to create a society for all ages. To social workers, probably nothing could be more fundamental to making the U.S. society one for all ages than the two great political challenges still facing our 52-year-old president. How shall one sustain the universal social insurance system-Social Security and Medicare--for aging and disabled people no longer employed? Even elderly people who are supposed to be protected are losing health insurance. Some 450,000 Medicare beneficiaries have been dumped recently by their Medicare Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) as a spate of health plans have decided not to renew their contracts with HCFA. Many of these seniors, who had enrolled in HMOs to receive prescription drug coverage and lower cost sharing, live in areas where no alternative HMOs exists.
- Subjects
OLD age; SOCIAL security; MEDICARE; HEALTH insurance; OLDER people; HEALTH maintenance organizations
- Publication
Health & Social Work, 1999, Vol 24, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0360-7283
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/hsw/24.1.3