Description: Presidential candidates address elderly constituency, particularly on need for national health care. Senior citizens generally disbelieve the campaign promises.
Description: Elderly people, mostly women, walk singly and in pairs, some with canes, crutch. One in wheelchair with attendant. They carry packages and bags. In grocery store and waiting for public transportation.
Description: Senior citizens dressed in Halloween costumes rally in State House halls to protest cuts in elder home care. Sen. John Houston, Rep. Marjorie Clapprood.
Description: House Ways and Means chair Thomas Finneran says drastic cuts in state spending are inevitable. He will present very lean budget. Even once untouchable programs such as Medicaid will be vulnerable.