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Brief Descriptions of Connecticut State Agencies

Department on Aging

Agency Web page | Statutory Authority |Agency History |
Published histories/articles
| State Library Collections | List of Commissioners

Agency Web page :
Not available

Statutory Authority :
CGS Sections 17-136, 137.

Agency History :

1957, Commission for Services for Elderly Persons, established per P.A. 633.

1969, Functions absorbed by new Department on Aging, and the new Advisory Council on Aging per P.A. 814.

1993, Dept. on Aging absorbed into Department of Social Services, becomes the Elderly Services Division, per P.A. 93-262.

See related link to Commission on Aging

Published Histories/Articles :
Not available

Agency Documents and Records in the State Library Collections :

Check the State Library catalog, CONSULS, under these author headings for publications by the agency available in the State Library :

Connecticut. Commission on Services for Elderly Persons.

Connecticut. Dept on Aging.

Connecticut. Division of Elderly Services.

Annual Reports are located in :

1957, 1967-1993, [CSL Call Number ConnDoc Ag79 rep]

1993-, [CSL Call Number ConnDoc So25eL anre]

State Archives Record Group : RG 164

List of Commissioners :

Name

Years of Service

Joseph C. Buckley

1957

Judge George Schwolsky

1958-1959

Dr. Donald P. Kent

1959-1961

Beatrice S. Sanderson

1961-1965

Sholom Bloom

1965-1966

Carmen Romano

1966-1971

Mother M. Bernadette De Lourdes

1971-1975

Charles E. Odell

1975-1976

William R. Ratchford

1976-1978

William N. MacKay

1978

Marin J. Shealy

1978-1982

Mary Ellen Klinck

1982-1990

Edith Gelt Prague

1990-1992

A. Cynthia Matthews

1992-1993

Prepared by the Government Information and Reference Services Unit, page revised 6/2008.