Vol. 13 No. 2/3 - March-June 1985

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Older Wiser Stronger: Southern Elders

• Readers Corner

  Elizabeth Cousins Rogers

  2

• Southern News Roundup

  3

• Facing South: We're All Going to Get Old

  Rebecca McCarthy

  7

• Voices of Our Neighbors

  Louise Crane

  8

• Older, Wiser, Stronger

  Mary Eldridge

  10

• Old People's Day

  Michael Dane Moore

  14

• The Measure of My Days

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  19

• "Don't Send Me Flowers When I'm Dead. I Want Them Now."

  Eva Salber, Dominic D'Eustchio, and Duncan Heron

  21

• "It's In the Doing That You Get Your Strength"

  Janet Wells

  24

• Percy Took Me By the Hand

  Willie Morris

  32

• The Long View of Elder Activists

  Anne Braden

  34

• Grassroots Power

  Jack Neely

  40

• Attacking Elder Abuse

  interview with Charlotte Flynn, by Martha Boethel

  46

• A Kids-Eye View of Elders

  John Puckett

  50

• West Virginia Elders Make a Difference

  Beth Crittenden

  52

• Communities on the Move

  Debora Bouton and Ingrid Canright

  57

• Close, Close Peoples

  Jan Gilbert

  60

• I'm Warning You

  Jo Carson

  61

• Fifty Years of Eternal Vigilance

  Helen Boras

  62

• The Older I Get, the Closer I Get to the Ground

  interview with Everettt Akers, by Kristin Layng and Joe Szakos

  68

• Barbara Deming: 1917-1984

  Mab Segrest

  72

• Makin' Gumbo

  Jan Gilbert

  76

• The For-Profit Hospital Juggernaut

  Geri Dallek and Linda Lowe

  78

• Tennessee's Real People

  Howard I. Scott, Jr.

  88

• Citizen Participation is the Key to Victory

  Andrea Cooper

  94

• Crone

  Nancy Breeze

  100

• "I Never Had It So Good"

  Bernard Forer

  102

• The Old Old in Florida

  Angie Cannon

  104

• Home Is Where They Want to Be

  Millie Buchanan

  108

• Now They've Got to Treat Folks Right

  113

• Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform

  Janet Wells

  116

• Persistence is the Key

  interview with Eddie Sandifer, by Ken Lawrence and Dick Harger

  120

• "Doing the Right Thing"

  Evelyn May

  125

• The Biggest Question Mark of All

  Garrett Epps

  126

• An Experience with Death

  Ernest Morgan

  127

• The Jazz Funeral

  Jules L. Cahn

  128

• Growing Old Southern

  Stuart Rosenfeld and Mary Eldridge

  130

• Promises to Keep

  Linda Rocawich

  133

• Showdown at the White House

  Andrew Dobelstein and Ann Bilas Johnson

  135

• SSI: What Does It Stand For?

  Richard J. Margolis

  137

• Our Federal Health Programs Can Be Saved

  Claude Pepper

  140

• Social Security

  Wilbur J. Cohen

  141

• Friends and Others

  143

• Resources

  148

• Bulletin Board of the South

  151

• A Voice of the Future

  Mary Brinkmeyer

  152

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