Abstract
The proportion of older people in the United States population is growing at a faster rate than is the population in general. Since some 50 percent of blind persons are over age 60, there will be almost 300,000 elderly blind persons by the year 2000. The cooperation of several agencies will be necessary to supply services to help older blind persons to remain as competent and independent as possible. A cooperative program of the Rhode Island Association for the Blind and the Rhode Island Division of the Aging is described.
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