Yet the signal that public policy sends out, on home care and health care alike, is that the elderly, with their degenerative diseases and impaired capacity, are a "problem" or a "burden".
The April Fool's message, titled "Important New Email Policy", was sent out on Wednesday morning to employees of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, which boasts 1,200 lawyers in 20 offices around the world.
General Amos, who began his assignment last month, said he was reviewing the preliminary findings of an internal Pentagon survey of the policy that was sent out to about 400,000 troops and 150,000 family members.
Once I decided to step into the world of science policy and management, I sent out hundreds of curricula vitae.
Though we garrison the globe in a historically unprecedented way, that fact is not part of any discussion or debate in this country; Congress doesn't hold hearings on global basing policy; reporters aren't sent out to cover the subject; and presidents never mention it in speeches to the nation.
He sent out senior policy aides and close advisers to harvest the best entitlement reform ideas from the conservative policy johnnies.
The Draft Policy on Sex Work was sent out to members last week ahead of the Dublin conference and later leaked online.
The questionnaire concerning its anti-gay policy that the Boy Scouts of America sent out to its 1.1m members days ago is one such moment.
Labor Department officials announced this policy clarification after the department sent out mixed signals in recent months over whether American companies could be fined thousands of dollars for safety violations at the homes of the nation's estimated 20 million telecommuters, who use computers and modems to do work outside the office.
But board member Louis Schulman, who voted in favor of the updated policy, said he was offended by both the national Boy Scouts policy and the recently drafted pamphlet sent out by the local Yankee Council.
Kim Jong-il's successor in December 2011, his third son Kim Jong-un, continued the dynastic policy of sending out mixed signals.
