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WILDWOOD - Performers from all parts of the eastern United States will be sharing their acquired or inherited love of German festive music during the Wildwood Bavarian Oktoberfest, Sept. 19. 20 and 21 at Convention Hall. Among the many entertainers is is Eberhartl, the Singing Rbeinlander, who strolls the festival playing the accordtan and singing. According to the troubadour, "Everybody sings in Germany. Parents sing, children sing. When families get together, they sing. When you go to a German Bar, the men sing. Children sing walking to school. Everyone sings. I want to remember my German so I sing in German." MUSICIANS will also be performing in the two halls from 6 p.m. to midnight on Friday, noon to midnight on Saturday and noon to 10

p.m. on Sunday, bringing back memories and creating happy times in the spirit of fun and festivity. The words to many popular songs will be printed in the program so everybody can sing along, as in Germany. Appearing at the festival will be Kaz and the Mischief Makers, one of the top three German Bands in America. CA8IMIR (KAZ) Wulkowicz’ seven piece group started as a polka band in 1948 in Reading, Pa. Kaz took over 20 years ago, changed the emphasis to German music and the Mischief Makers have performed from Alabama to New York. Also participating are Nick Hubb's International Orchestra, the Jolly Rheinlaenders, Leroy Heffentrager, the German Alpiners, Jacob Titz Orch., Johnny Schomkers Band, The Sullivans and Jolly Joe and the Bavarians.

Care for Elderly WASHINGTON — The Senate Finance subcommittee on health has opened hearings on legislation that Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., is sponsoring to broaden and blend many home care services for elderly and disabled people. "The intent of this bill is to provide a comprehensive community-based system of medical and social services so that the elderly and disabled citizens can remain as independent and self-sufficient as possible,” Bradley told the subcommittee's first session. "If that is done, unnecessary placements in nursing homes, hospitals and other institutions can be avoided." Bradley, who introduced the legislation this summer with Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., noted that the proposed measure would establish a new "Title XXI" for the Social Security Act to consolidate existing home care services now financed by Medicare, Medicaid and other sections of the law. In addition, he said, it would make available a wider range of home care services for all elderly and disabled citizens — including homemaker, home health care, adult day care and "respite care” services, along with funding for screening, assessment and case management. THE NEW JERSEY SENATOR cited several major reasons for the new approach. For one thing, he pointed to a significant increase in the number of Americans over 65 years old — now up to 11.2 percent of the population — and projections that the figure will rise steadily in coming years. Bradley said "there is a growing appreciation” of the fact that the elderly and disabled now must often "live totally independently in <their own homes or face being placed in a nursing home or other institutional setting” even though they may need only “modest or temporary assistance." He added. "The road into nursing homes or other institutional care is too frequently a one-way street. A return to the community becomes increasingly difficult the longer one is institutionalized, especially because community support services are iri short supply or nonexistant." The dilemma is compounded, Bradley said, because "there is a bias in public and private sources of health care funding for the elderly and disabled — since Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance will reimburse certain services only if they are delivered in an institutional setting. They will not reimburse those same services provided to otherwise eligible individuals in their homes." BRADLEY TOLD THE SUBCOMMITTEE: "Institutional care is expensive, and unnecessary institutional care is wasteful. The societal over-reliance on and overuse of nursing homes has serious economic effects, as well as undesirable psychological and social effects, on the elderly and disabled, their families, and other ‘third-party payers’ including all levels of government." If the proposed legislation is adopted, Bradley said It would be expected to: —Increase the availability of services and stimulate additional groups in the community to provide Title XXI services by extending federal reimbursement to com-munity-based providers. —Assure a continuum of services available to the elderly and disabled under the Social Security Act by combining these services under one Title and providing for service delivery on a comprehensive basis. —Secure needed care for the elderly and disabled and also prevent unnecessary and inappropriate placement of these individuals in institutions by providing funding for screening, assessment and case management services. Bradley emphasized that the legislation for this "very ambitious program" was drafted to require extensive testing of it so that changes could be made as it is put into effect. He noted that the bill provides for three-year demonstration projects in 10 states to determine the effectiveness of the new approach at the statewide level.

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