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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED267541 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Home Health Care for Chronically Ill Children:
Hearing before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources,
United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session
on Examining the Needs for Pediatric Home Care for Children
with Long-Term Illnesses and Disabilities.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1985
NOTE: 252 p.; Parts of the document have small print.
ABSTRACT: The proceedings of the 1985 hearing address
issues in pediatric home care for children with long-term
illnesses and disabilities. Statements of parents center on
extreme expenses of home care and the difficulties of
finding financial aid. Additional testimony is offered by
representatives of home health care agencies, physicians
involved in care of children with long-term illnesses and
disabilities, senators, staff of infant programs, and
health care administrators. Among additional material
appended are articles on home care for children with cancer
and serious handicapping conditions. These include: "Health
and Federal Leadership" (New York Times); "Home Care for
Children with Serious Handicapping Conditions" (Department
of Health and Human Services); "Home Care for the Child
with Cancer" (Ida Mantinson, and others); "The Cost of Home
Care for Dying Children" (Gay Moldow); "Professionally
Speaking, from Research to Reality--Home Care for the Dying
Child (American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing). (CL)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Cancer-; Diseases-; Financial-Support;
Health-Services; Hearings-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Financial-Problems; *Home-Programs;
*Medical-Services; *Special-Health-Problems
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