The Attitudes and Adjustments of Recipients of Old Age Assistance in Upstate and Metropolitan New York

George Lawton, Christine M. Morgan
1939 American Sociological Review  
FOREWORD This study was financed by Vassar College from the 1880 Fund for Old Age "Welfare, a gift to the co llege by the class of 1880 in honor of one of the members of the class, Dr. Lillien J. Martin, and her distinguished psychotherapeutic work with the aged at the Old Age Center in San Francisco, California. 1 I am indebted to a numbe r of people for help in preparing this report. I take pleasure here in expressing my gratitude to Dr. David C. Adie, Commissioner of Social "Welfare of the
more » ... ate of New York, and to Mr. Richard "Wallace, Assistant Commissioner, for their courtesy in facilitating my interviews -with recipients of ol d age grants in Tompkins County and their cooperation in collecting additional data from Buffalo, Albany, and New York City. My thanks also go to Pr ofessor Margaret Floy "Washburn and Professor Herbert E. Mills of Vassar College, and Mr. Abraham Epstein, for their assistance in making the original plans, to Professor Gardner Murphy of Columbia and Professor Joseph K. Folsom of Vassar for supervision of the study, and to my mother for many pertinent criticisms and suggestions. Last, but by no me ans least, I w ish to tha nk the people who contributed the material for the study from the experience of their lives.
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