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Administration on Aging: Harmonizing Growing Demands and Shrinking Resources

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Feb. 12, 1992
Report No. PEMD-92-7
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Summary:

To make its June 1991 testimony on the Administration on Aging more widely available, GAO has published its remarks as a blue cover report. The Administration on Aging helps meet the special needs of the elderly by providing them with a wide array of social and nutritional services. These services have become increasingly important because the U.S. elderly population has grown nearly 65 percent since 1965. During the 1980s, however, the Administration on Aging experienced a significant decline in inflation-adjusted program funds. As a result, new programs and mandates are unfunded, key leadership positions are vacant, and the organization's monitoring capabilities are in question. Clearly, the ambitious aims of the Older Americans Act are being compromised by a shortage of resources. GAO believes that it is time to look realistically at what the Administration on Aging can do and how the agency's priorities for actions should be set, given available staffing, funding, and expertise.

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