Health Care

Old Age Assistance

Financial assistance for the impoverished elderly through public funding of programs, services, and individual income supplements.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Financial assistance for the impoverished elderly through public funding of programs, services, and individual income supplements.

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Synonyms

4 entry terms
  • Old Age Security
  • Assistance, Old Age
  • Assistances, Old Age
  • Security, Old Age

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Aspects Covered

9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

specify geog

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History Note

91(75); was see under PUBLIC ASSISTANCE 1975-90

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Tree Number

  1. N03w.219w.521.346.506.678w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Old Age Assistance. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009826. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009826
  2. Old Age Assistance. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elderly_care
  3. Old Age Assistance. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q437458