Abstract
□ In summary, I have outlined the needs of older blind persons for adequate income, health care, rehabilitation services, housing, and other special services. I have briefly discussed existing federal laws designed to meet these needs and one proposal to meet the urgent need for rehabilitation services. Clearly, all of these programs need drastic improvement in many ways if adequate income and services are to be assured. And equally important, state and local agencies, which must inevitably be the providers of direct services, must forcefully advocate these services and become prepared to provide them.
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