Proclamation 5913 --
National Home Care Week, 1988
By
the President of the
A
Proclamation
Home
care enhances life for people of all ages who are ill or disabled. The home
should be the setting of first choice for care and treatment, because it is
conducive to healing; in the home, family members can supply caring and love.
The combination of professional services with such situations can add to the effectiveness
of home health care. National Home Care Week, 1988, reminds us of the good that
results when families and home care providers put into practice the respect we
all owe to everyone in need of such care.
In
recent years, home care programs have grown in number and in importance in
health care delivery. We should all be grateful that these programs enable
millions of Americans to receive fine care at home. The employees and
volunteers of home care agencies, private and public alike, need our cooperation
and attention as they work with family members across our land to offer the
excellent care patients at home require and deserve.
The
Congress, by Public Law 100 - 600, has designated the period of November 27
through December 3, 1988, as ``National Home Care Week'' and authorized and
requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this week.
Now,
Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the
In
Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this nineteenth day of November,
in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the
Ronald
Reagan
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