at older ages, most men are actually still married, but at older ages most women are not married. they're not able to remarry. there are fewer men around and they're living alone, and those are among the most deprived, are older women. >> dr. hartmann, many of the lowest seniors are dependent on programs, whether it's federal housing or food stamps. let me ask you a simple question. what happens if those programs are cut? >> well, obviously, a complete disaster. peopling can try to go to food pantries, rely on charity from friends and neighbors, and people in churches, friendses and neighbors are going to do as much as they can, but most of those groups are actually relying on the federal programs to give assistance. if you drive meals on wheels, you're volunteering your time, but the meal is coming from a federal program. so, i think as much as we would call upon our volunteers to help, if those federal programs disappeared, it would be very, very difficult. >> miss watkins, you live in the northeast kingdom, a rural area in the state of vermont. what is your observation about se

>> i am a transitional age youth. it is appalling that people are opposing this project, no matter how the concerns are framed, it doesn't make sense to a young person like myself that would benefit greatly from this housing project. i don't understand how people can be opposed to helping to create safe and affordable housing for the city's most marginalized youth. rather than respond to the issues, i would like to remind you all that the initial goal was to create 400 units for the transitional age youth by 2012. that goal has already been delayed. and this is a very urgent matter and ask that you not further delay this project. affordable housing is one of the most critical needs. please support the project. thank you. >> good evening, supervisors. i am here to speak in support of the edward the second project. just for a second, imagine a child that has been sexually abused by her father and is forced to enter the foster care system. this is a friend of mine that is now 19 years old and just trying to get her life

youth that are in foster home at age 18, as you heard president of the marina remind us, at age 18, they are turned away. and think about us as parents, us as children, how support of the work of our children once they graduate from high school or for those of you younger than i am, how your parents supported you when you graduated from high school. these foster kids heart and underserved population. when i think about this, i am reminded by something -- a jesuit philosopher reminded me that the society is judged by how it treats in the least of its members. please support this project. >> supervisors, i feel underdressed. i am here talking on behalf of youth services. i am currently staying at the youth shelter. i recently had a chance to visit the marina district for the first time. it was very beautiful and very clean. i did not understand why there was some much debate about the shelter and the first place. aside from money and building regulations, i understand there is a certain level of fear that comes with homeless activity in such a beautiful district like the marina. no one wan

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japan is an aging society, but quite rich. we are aging, but quite rich. china compared with the united states is aging faster than we are. in 15 years, there will have a higher percentage of their population above 60 than the americans do. >> one look at population in terms of the world hitting 7 billion -- is a challenge or an opportunity? you are suggesting is nothing numbers that matter. it is the demographics. >> especially when it comes to china. right now, they are in a sweet spot. the huge percentage of their population is working age. but they are aging rapidly. in a couple of years, they will have 100 million people over the age of 80 in a country without a social security system. that is gone to be a huge drain on resources. >> thanks very much for coming in. there is no doubt that the chinese influence is being felt around the globe. now, that extends to broadway. alongside "phantom of the opera ," you cannot find "chinglish," which uses a communication gap to have a lot of laughs. >> musicals, from "porgy and bess" to "mama mia," have been a s

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once again, this age group is an age group that is a risk and therefore i think i would just concludeh the notion that these programs such as described to take advantage of are extremely important to continue. if we are going to prevent poverty from increasing the as this generation retires we have to do something to strengthen their employment opportunities and their ability to save and build for their retirement. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, dr. hardman. our final witness is dr. sandra najaf and senior vice president for economic security of the ed national economics on where she oversees programs to the economic well-being of 5 million vulnerable older adults by 2020. prior to joining, she served as president and ceo of the richmond childrens foundation. thanks very much for being with us. >> thanks, chairman sanders. my fellow witnesses and guests on behalf of the national council on aging i appreciate the opportunity to testify today. ncoa is a nonprofit advocacy service organization headquartered here in washington, d.c.. ncoa's mission is to improve the health a

18-244 at risk of homelessness including the aging out of foster care. they both have award winning reputations for their work weather is housing development, management, or support of services. i trust they will bring this work ethic and professionalism to the project. hall at all, it represents a small but meaningful contribution to the transitional aged youth housing plan. each one represents a significant investment in preventing homelessness right now and preventing the emergence of a new generation of homeless adults and families. please support the efforts. the '90s appeals for the conditional use permit. thank you. >> good evening, president chiu and members of the board. i am here in strong support of the project which takes a 29- unit hotel down to 24 units. the neighborhood outreach that we have conducted has been amazing. there is a website for community meetings, house parties, fires, the males, and door hangers. and it matches those of your political campaigns. sometimes you can't completely overcome through claims and fear that the opposit

at what age do you recommend someone like that start mammograms? there's been controversy over that as well. >> no risk factors, like most women, other than they are a woman and they have breasts. i tell women it you're going to start yourself breast examination, start in your 20s so they get comfortable with the procedure. most women will find a mass on their own instead of the doctor finding it. so then what i'll do with this woman, i will advise her at age 40, get your base line mammogram. every two years after that, get a mammogram. then every month, you're doing yourself breast examination, you're seeing me once a year, i'm examining your breast. after age 50 we'll start doing a mammogram every year. >> you should know as well that my mom is doing great. she's the beneficiary of a lot of the things you're talking about. you know, a lot of people talk about this, julianna rancic, a host on e spoke candidly about this. >> through my attempt to get pregnant through ivf, we sadly found out that i have early stages of breast cancer. and it's been a

are we an aging-for in the city in san francisco? yes. you for standing strong to defend our program. the 11th adult day day care centers in the city, we have to defend it and make sure that on december 1, we have all the programs in place and that we not think about cuts, but that we're strengthening these programs so that everyone can live in dignity as they grow older in the city of san francisco. i wanted that i applaud the senior organizations for standing strong and organizing themselves to make sure that we have better funding streams from the city. not just looking at budget announced that have been satisfied by the mayor and others, but that we have strong money strains so that as the aging population doubles, so that in 20 to 30 years when they become senior boomers, we can show that everybody can aged with dignity in its san francisco and that we're an aging-friendly city. i am look forward to working with the other supervisors. thank you so much. >> thank you. [applause] so we have some other members on the board of supervisor

the project is designed to be affordable housing for youth between 18-24 years of age. there is a fundamental conflict between housing design for youth up to a particular age and permanent housing with eviction control. again, there is a disconnect between the project as presented to the community and to the potential reality. the risk is that once the project is fully occupied, current residents will not cycle out to make room for additional residents, but after several years, the project could be at full capacity with only residents over the age of 24. the sud does not require tay housing, but the application, the legislation, the entire process is presented as that. this is an issue that should be addressed in order to create a consistent or part of a consistent, uniformed approach to this development of this type of housing. next, the commission could not have a rational decision on the application because the project sponsor is consistently unclear about the population that the project would serve. the project sponsor has represented that the project will support h

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even schizophrenia at that age, some signs. those signs also... we also have just recently learned that there are other signs that start to appear to give us a little insight around 2 to 3 years earlier, so we're really starting to reach in to those younger populations. we also need to balance out the brain disease part of mental health-mental illness, rather-and see what can we do about that, like, and learn from the substance abuse world of their issues with looking at how the brain interacts with our enzymes, which interacts with the disease itself. as with most chronic illnesses, even though we have come so far with addictions and in mental illness we still are not at the same level of knowledge and expertise that we are with learning about diabetes and cancer and heart disease and even alzheimer's disease. so we have come a long way, but we have a lot longer to go to be able to get this to a level where all physicians, like dr. greene, who understands the behavioral health issues and understands addictions. so it becomes j

it comes the nearly 17 million under retirement age on social security.among those not getting a raise tonight are congressmen. not a raise in campaign contributions, anyway. in fact, it's quite the opposite. have a look at this. in the third quarter of 2007, congressional reelection campaigns took in $201 million in contributions. our washington bureau crunched the numbers for the third quarter of this year and it's just $69 million. maybe unemployed folks can't give so much. we asked nancy cordes to tell us more. >> reporter: this is ha disgraceful moment! >> reporter: as congress clashed over the debt, americans closed their wallets sending a powerful message to incumbents, particularly the new ones. of the 87 new house republicans who swept the g.o.p. into power in 2010, 55 raised far less than republican officials say they need to win. bringing in less than $200,000 each this summer. many of the cash-poor freshmen come from swing district where they will face tough fights for reelection. like lou barletta of pennsylvania who raised $100,000. and anni

so the age is fairly arbitrary. it doesn't mean that all children do things at the same age. we need to be more developmentally focused than on the age. >> talking to an educator recently who studies this closely saying multiage, very young age, more important than arbitrary grades. we can talk about that another time. sandra, thank you. we'll tweet out a link to that. it was widely e-mails. nick, pedro, stick around. >>> in this week's installment of "is college worth it," how about, it isn't? high pro stefile examples to bat up. >>> and warm and fuzzy. all about math and science this season. elmo here to talk about "sesame street's" latest mission.ht s everywhere who trust duracell. so, look for these special packs to see how you can help your local volunteers. duracell. trusted everywhere. i want healthy skin for life. [ female announcer ] don't just moisturize, improve the health of your skin with aveeno daily moisturizing lotion. the natural oatmeal formula goes beyond 24-hour moisture. it's clinically proven to improve your skin's health in one day, with significant imp