Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled: The Young Recipients
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Young disabled persons, those under age 35, were the most seriously handicapped of all recipients of aid to the permanently and totally disabled in mid-1951. Many suflered from mental deficiency and other disabilities of congenital or birth origin. Relatively nzore of them than of the older recipients were confined to their homes and required services from other persons in daily activities and their disabilities were also of longer duration.
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