Excerpt from Hearing on the Reauthorization of the Older American Volunteers Program: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session; Hearing Held in Washington, DC, March 24, 1993 Senior Companions, another program, are also drawn from the poor senior population. These volunteers provide companionship and nontechnical services to other seniors who are at risk of loss of independence or in danger of institutionalization because of frailty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.