This document presents testimony and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing held to gather information from Maryland residents on ways to improve the Older Americans Act, and to determine the needs of elders and whether or not those needs are being met. A brief history of the Older Americans Act, first passed in 1965 to improve the…

Knowledge Management (KM) is the process through which organizations generate value from their intellectual and knowledge-based assets. Frequently generating value from such assets means sharing them among employees, divisions and even with other companies in order to develop best practices. This article discusses three basic aspects of…

The purpose of this study was to survey a sample of RSVP volunteers in an attempt to identify those areas of the program which were and were not providing satisfaction. Subjects were 100 volunteers, 50 who had dropped out of the program and 50 who were still active. A telephone survey was conducted by trained staff. The results for most volunteers…

The concept of a service delivery system as it relates to handicapped students is explained, and characteristics of a new model for service delivery in special education are described. Present service delivery systems are seen to be lacking in uniformity in the types and quality of services available and in continuity of programs to all age levels…

This project assumes that a youngster's problems with the law rarely occur in isolation. More often, they are part of a constellation of problems--family conflict, school failure, unemployment, emotional difficulties and, in urban ghettos, inadequate housing and health care. The Neighborhood Youth Resources Center (NYRC) of Philadelphia provides a…

This paper traces the development of the regionalization of health care services to the present model of the Health Systems Agency, HSA. Survey data obtained by a mailed questionnaire sent to hospital administrators is presented. The focus of the presentation is on a number of organizational variables as they influence the hospital administrator's…

These five papers discuss the use of communication delivery systems in developing nations. Four of the papers stress the need for developing nations to adapt delivery systems to their national and cultural interests, to receive training in the management and use of the systems, without undue influence from the developing nations whose technology…

The approach discussed in this paper is the application of present systems analysis and modeling techniques to provide a micro-model of the allied health system. (Author)

The three papers examine rural early education and related services for young children with handicaps. The first paper is entitled "A University Based Inservice Training Model for Personnel Serving Handicapped Preschoolers" by S. Stile and T. Pettibone and reports evaluation results of a New Mexico project serving 14 teachers with a 5…

The first phase of a four-phase needs assessment study of children's services in West Virginia is reported at length in this document. (The remaining three phases are also briefly described.) In this first phase of the study, the efforts of other states in providing children's services were surveyed, relevant literature was reviewed, and…

The paper addresses issues facing small and rural Iowa school districts that attempt to provide services for their gifted and talented students. Problems with transportation, personnel costs, and the small number of target students are cited, and enrichment program alternatives such as mentorships, educational programing from television and radio,…

The report cites research on educators' knowledge and understanding of P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act), the ability of a typical school staff to implement P.L. 94-142, and elements restrictive to providing the instructional program. Noted among findings were the following: although a student provided with special…

The manual highlights the components of the parent involvement of the Project for Early Education of Exceptional Children (PEEEC), a demonstration project serving 3 to 8 year old children in Kentucky with multiple handicaps. Following an introduction on the philosophical/theoretical foundations of the PEEEC parent services model is a section on…