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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 21
JUNE 2, 1972
DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA
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SPENDING THEIR SUMMER AT Student nurses from throughout the
United States are spending 10 weeks of their summer vacation in the Professional
Nurse Assistant Program, a special Duke summer employment opportunity. (See story
on page 2). Working on the medical wards. Long and Hanes, are, from left to right,
Cathy Hart, Suzie Perlee, Mary Catherine Davis, Alice May Succop, and Janet Chesson.
(photo by Lewis Parrish)
Conference Explores Aging Problem
Not everyone 65 and older is "elderly"
or "aged." Many people appear, feel and
act young far into what is considered old
age.
But hundreds of thousands of that
population group are physically, socially
and mentally aged, to the point that they
live out their remaining years in rest
homes, nursing homes or other
institutions.
A national conference meeting here
for a three-day session that started
yesterday is exploring that problem. The
name of the conference is "Alternatives
to Institutional Care for Older
Americans: Practice and Planning."
Sponsored by Duke's Center for the
Study of Aging and Human Development,
the conference sessions are being held in
Zener Auditorium of the
Sociology-Psychology Building.
It was organized for people working
directly with the elderly, and for those
responsible for planning local, state,
regional and national programs for older
Americans.
Last night's dinner speaker was Sen.
Thomas F. Eagleton, D-Mo., a member of
the Senate Special Committee on Aging.
Speakers today include Dr. Marie
Callender, special assistant for nursing
home affairs in the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare; Bryon
Gold, assistant to the special consultant
to the President; and J. Eddie Brown,
executive director of the N.C. Governor's
Coordinating Council on Aging.
Duke is calling on 15 of its faculty and
staff to take part in the program and
supplement ideas supplied by more than
20 other visiting speakers from across the
country.
Dr. W.G. Anlyan
Delivers Lecture
On Health Care
(Dr. William G. Anlyan, vice president
for health affairs, delivered the 82nd
annual Shattuck Lecture of the
Massachusetts Medical Society in Boston
on Wednesday. He made some significant
points about the involvement of politics
in the nation's health care. Following is a
news article prepared on his talk:)
BOSTON-The head of one of the
country's major academic health centers
today appealed to President Nixon and
whoever will be the Democratic Party
nominee to erase politics from the
nation's health care picture.
He also encouraged presidential
support for development of a long-range
health care blueprint that would stretch
across many future administrations.
In a speech that took the form of a
letter to "Mr. President and Mr.
Nominee," Duke University's vice
president for health affairs. Dr. William
G. Anlyan, said, "The time span to
achieve an optimum (health care) system
may extend beyond the dominance of
any one party. Therefore, a blueprint that
can be supported by both parties is
required."
As one point of support for separation
of health care from politics, Anlyan said
that several Washington advisory groups
on biomedical research over the past
decade have contained "incompetent or
1 ess-than-adequately competent"
members who have received advisory
appointments "as a reward for political
allegiance."
This type of political influence,
coupled with insufficient federal funding,
means that "our world leadership in
biomedical research is being eroded,"
Anlyan said.
Anlyan said that advice to the White
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