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HRD-81-81 1 (1981-04-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbvt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNT[NG OFFICE WASH[NGTON, D.C. 20548 HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION B-202937 APRIL 27, 1981 iThe Honorable Lawton Chiles Ranking Minority Member Special Committee on Aging 115071 United States Senate 3 Dear Senator Chiles: Subject: tInformation On Persons 60 Years or Older Employed By Area Agencies On Aging (HRD-81-81) This letter responds to your. reut for information about the number of people, by age groups, that the area agencies on aging employ. We understand that your primary concern is to determine what proportion of people that area agencies on aging employ are 60 years old and older. First, it might be useful to recap how we became involved in an area agency survey from which we could obtain the information that your staff requested. In the conference repbrt on the 1978 amendments-to the Comprehensive Older -We-ricans Act t-e-conferees expressed interest in determining whether the many Federal programs providing assistance to older Americans are being effectively managed and coordinated. On March 7, 1979, 5Snaktr Ragleton, as Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Aging, asked the GAO to determine how well area agencies on aging have carried out their 1973 legislative man- date to develop a comprehensive, coordinated system for services for the elderly. About a year later, on April 15, 1980, you requested that GAO assess the differing capacities of area agencies as an adjunct to the study underway in response to Senator Eagleton's request. Responding to these requests, we recently surveyed a sample of 139 area agencies on aging. Included in our survey instrument was a request for certain types of staffing information. From the 133 area agencies that responded to our survey instrument, we obtained the total number of professional staff they paid from all funding sources, classified by age group, as of January 1, 1980. We specifically asked survey respondents to exclude volunteers from the staffing figures. Also, our survey instrument did not ask for similar information for nonprofessional staff. (104118)

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