This document contains the 1989 annual report of the Senate Special Committee on Aging. It describes actions during 1989 by the Congress, the federal administration, and the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, which are significant to America's older citizens. It also summarizes and analyzes the federal policies and programs that are of the most continuing importance for older persons, their families, and for those who will become older Americans in the future. Individuals chapters examine the issues of: (1) Social Security--old age, survivors, and disability insurance; (2) employee pensions; (3) taxes and savings; (4) employment; (5) Supplemental Security Income; (6) food stamps; (7) health care; (8) long-term care; (9) housing programs; (10) energy assistance and weatherization; (11) the Older Americans Act; (12) social, community, and legal services; and (13) the federal budget. Supplemental materials contained in the report include brief summaries of the 1989 hearings of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, a list of prints and information papers printed by the Senate Special Committee of Aging in 1989, a list of the staff of the committee, and a Committee publications list from 1961 to 1989. (NB)