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Full-Text Articles in Social Work
The Politics Of Aging And Rural Social Services: An Exploratory Analysis, Roger A. Lohmann
The Politics Of Aging And Rural Social Services: An Exploratory Analysis, Roger A. Lohmann
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
The advent of federal funding for rural social services during the late 1960s and 1970s brought about changes in the political organization of rural America. A host of new organizational actors, like Area Agencies on Aging and various local aging agencies were created in rural communities across the country, in the wake of Baker v. Carr with its “one man/one vote” principle and funding through programs like the Economic Opportunity Act and the Older Americans Act. This article details a leadership succession model suggesting that local leadership of aging interests went through at least four distinct phases during this time: …
The Politics Of Aging And Rural Social Services, Roger A. Lohmann
The Politics Of Aging And Rural Social Services, Roger A. Lohmann
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
Circumstances in the development of rural aging services in the 1960s and 1970s produced four distinct community leadership styles in the aging network. These are described and labeled the pre-organizational, the grantsman or leadership planner style, the organizational or managerial style and the organized advocacy style.
Ua12/2/36 Day Care Scrapbook, Gamma Sigma Sigma
Ua12/2/36 Day Care Scrapbook, Gamma Sigma Sigma
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Gamma Sigma Sigma scrapbook of service to the Bowling Green Day Care Center.