Of beautiful multiracial multigenerational group of people who said we want to build a movement in this country for a more caring america, a more caring economy that works for families and for workers and supports us all to live with dignity at every stage of life. And four years later we are building in cities and states around the country. We have reached almost threequarters of a million senior voters every year, talking to them about caregiving and aging and longterm care and how we prepare for their future. We have been working hard to pass home care a rule change that will bring 2 million home care workers under minimumwage and overtime protection in the history of this country. [applause] so a movement for a more caring future is underway. Its growing and its making a difference. But really this is just the beginning and we are hoping that the age of dignity opens up another platform for us to continue building this conversation and building this momentum towards the solutions that we actually need for the future. And the age of dignity is truly a book about solutions and stories, your stories, my story, saritas stories stories of family caregivers who are grappling with how to manage caregiving for their aging loved ones, stories about home care workers are really take pride in the work that they do and yet still struggle earning poverty wages to make ends meet. And support their own families. The people that we count on to care for our families and their loved ones can take care of their own with the state of the jobs in the home care sector today. In its stories about people who are aging and growing older in this country and struggling to do so in a way that recognizes the dignity and the choice and the ability of all of us to be able to live well as we age. And the truth is that we are aging as a nation. There is no denying it. This year in 2015, 4 million of us will turn 65 four Million People will turn 65 in this country and that means by the year 2030, 20 of americans will be over the age of 65. My grandmothers demographic of 87 and older is the fastestgrowing demographic in this country and people are just living longer because of advances in health care and medicine and technology. Longevity is expanding and the baby boom generation reaching retirement age is creating the largest older population have ever had in the history of this country. What that means is by the year 2050, 27 million americans will need some form of longterm care or assistance just to make her meet our basic daily needs, 27 million of us. And we dont have a plan. Our families are prepared. You will see in the book that my family wasnt prepared. We dont have a plan and our country isnt prepared. What seems like an immense challenge i believe and generations believe its actually an incredible opportunity. Its an opportunity to not only transformed the 3 million direct care jobs that have been unsustainable jobs into good jobs for the 21st century that you can take pride in but its also the opportunity to make sure that our work and family care policies actually reflect the needs of 21st century working families. Its also an opportunity to make sure that every one of our loved ones who take care of us like my grandfather and my grandmother actually have the choices that they deserve as they grow older to live with dignity life on their terms. So that is the opportunity before us, to create the kinds of solutions that uplift us all. You will see in the age of dignity that there are so many stories and solutions already out there that point the way seeds of the future that we must create together. And it is truly a future that we must create together. Its about each of us as individuals preparing and planning. Its about our families preparing and planning and moving a conversation that had been historically laden with fear and anxiety and scarcity into one of possibility and abundance and connection. And that is the challenge before us. We are going to take this conversation that each of us are probably happening in some way shape or form in our private behind closeddoor lives. If we are not having a conversation we are struggling in some way shape or form and we are going to take it together in community and to the National Public conversation about the future of this country. That is the task and that is the opportunity ahead. And the age of dignity has solutions and stories that point the way. We are going to talk more about next steps before we close out the program but the theme of tonight mirrors the book where we are going to talk about the power of story to drive social change. Never before has there have been this issue that we are all touched by and yet its something that doesnt appear in the National Public conversation about our priorities our policy priorities of the future. Its not reflected back to us as an experience so by lifting up the stories and do the stories you are going to hear tonight you are going to see a reflection of the heart in the soul and the courage and resilience and the possibilities for the future of caregiving in america. [applause] and we are going to take it off with a story from the book. At the end of her career providing care for others 66yearold janee is retired. This means working less not entirely by choice. She has aged and it has become harder for to find work and to do the actual work but she is still looking. She still needs to send money home to her family in the philippines and to save for her own health care and retirement. Thankfully she received a spot in government subsidized housing housing, a small onebedroom apartment in the Senior Housing complex in chicago. Otherwise she could not afford a roof over her head. Travel has always been a passion of hers. This in the drive to support her family brought her to the United States in 2004 from the philippines. Over the years she has collected trinkets and ornaments like memories. They fill every corner of her small home. Many of these items have an asian origin like the series of three paintings of Cherry Blossoms hanging over the wall by the stove. Every time she posts the filipino Grandparents Association meeting in her apartment she is proud to share the meaning behind those paintings. Agram. Association is an annual public celebration and this year she has been diligently rehearsing a broadway medley with a choral group. She is excited that the medley includes songs from her favorite musical, the sound of music. After showing me the most significant items in their collection she insists on feeding me. She labels out a bowl of macaroni soup and has a slight milky broth with elbow macaroni and several kinds of meats which i cant identify with the exception of sausage. The eclectic mix mirrors at the core and her small apartment. She is a very good cook. All of her clients have told her. They all want her to make Filipino Food for them. She has introduced many chicago seniors to soft foods in the philippine cuisine which makes swallowing easier. She has is taking care of people with alzheimers the most challenging clients of all in her mind. Her last lines were a couple 88 euro couple with alzheimers and her 82yearold husband. She did want to take a bath or stand up but i just took my time. It takes a lot of patience. I worked there a little less than five years. They have no more money, put her in a nursing home in three months later she died. The husband just died last may and thats why i have no work. Her own mother in the philippines has alzheimers and she pays for her caregiver. I dont want her in a nursing home so im sending money. Thats why im looking for a new job. Its been more than five years since i worked through an agency but im applying now. She lives in fear getting sick being unable to work and and being put in a nursing home in the United States. I dont want to go to a nursing home. They have a lot of patience and its hard for them to attend to. They dont take care of you there. A friend of my sister went to one and they didnt give her food. Id rather go home to the philippines. If they get sick they are people to take care of us. For now she has bills to pay. She doesnt have a savings plan. She keeps on caring for others. As we envision a future in which we take care of americas families across generations we must create systems that adequately honor and compensate jody marleen melinda and the millions of other workers providing care. In a fair economy peoples whose profession is to raise children would not have trouble feeding for caring for their own children and the people who provide care for elders would receive support for their own retirement. Securing future we must create we will honor and respect and value the precious labor that these workers provide the care of upholding our society. The independence and productivity we treasure as individuals of all ages and destination require the work of caregivers at their foundation. With appropriate pay, benefits and Employee Support such as childcare and transportation along with training and real career ladders these can be respectable family sustaining jobs. Turning caregiving jobs into dignified jobs will have a Ripple Effect on society on the economy and other spiritual health. By doing so we affirm the dignity of people at every stage of life into old age and in every walk of life including caregiving. [applause] thank you aljen poo. Simply reading from her book the age of dignity. We have two more stories. This larger project as aljen said is linked with the story project that is helping to train and encourage people to tell their stories. We are going to start with one on a video behind me on the screen from Beth Engelman who was with a Partner Group of caring across generations. That is a new york city teacher for 30 years. Shes an active Public Servant at heart. She taught fifth and sixth grade in coney island and was so dedicated to the community that she worked there throughout her career commuting from the Upper West Side until her retirement in the early 1990s. She also spent 36 years volunteering at Memorial Sloankettering Cancer Center the Adoption Center at the aspca anderson the dogs soup kitchen. Now with the at the age of 80 she keeps in touch with her former students through facebook and i ask you to turn your attention to the screen to share that story. [video playing] my life is a very independent person doing things for myself by myself. My mom used to walk me to school everyday and it was only five blocks from my home but then she had my brother and i said well this is my opportunity for independence. And i pleaded with my parents to let me go to school by myself. Well we had a discussion and i was a pretty responsible kid so they felt the probably did it. What i didnt know the first week that i went on my on my father was behind me to make sure i was doing the right thing and was safe. He must have been satisfied because i was allowed to go to school on my own for the rest of the year and the rest of the time that i was in elementary school. Its not surprising when later in life i needed hip replacements of the right and left hip. I took myself to the hospital both times. I never thought of doing it a different way. My mobility became a little more challenged. A roll egg is a fancy name for a walker. It has four wheels. It has hand and breaks. It has a seat to saddam in case i got tired and it has a basket underneath to hold things. This walker became my constant companion. I felt i really needed a name for it so it became alice walker. [laughter] alice and i used to walk up and down the west side of new york. We would do what we wanted to do and go where we wanted to go. We were totally independent and i was loving my life. But then september 20, 2014 things changed. I went to the podiatrist the one i go to every five weeks because i have terrible feet and usually when i leave him he takes care of the corns and calluses and cuts my nails and does all these things. This time when i left his office i was still in pain. I noticed my left foot was dragging and as much as i try to walk faster i was in snail mode. So i realized something was wrong and i took myself to the urgent care center. After examining me the doctor said you have to go to the er at Presbyterian Hospital for an mri. The mri confirmed that i had had a stroke. So i was admitted to the stroke unit at the hospital and i was there for the next five days. It wasnt long before encountered two of the most dreaded symbols of total dependence the call button and the. The first time i rang the call button when i needed nature calling it took so long for someone to respond that i figured they were coming from a galaxy far far away. [laughter] and when they came i said whoever designed this new nothing about human anatomy. If theres anything worse than waiting for a is waiting and waiting and waiting for someone to take it away. Avanda five days i still couldnt walk so the social worker suggested that i go to amsterdam which is a rehab place place. It couldnt have been a better choice. I got Occupational Therapy and physical therapy on a daily basis and most of the time on the weekends. I got all the help i needed but i was always encouraged to take a step to try as much as i could for myself. So i went from a wheelchair to alice and my first big breakthrough was when alice and i went to the bathroom by ourselves. Can you imagine at the age of 80 i was actually able to go to the bathroom by myself. What an accomplishment. From there we walked unaccompanied to the dining room back and forth three times each day that the big triumph was when i got on the elevator 11th floor walk down to the first floor and took myself over to the snack machine where i satisfy my craving for potato chips and cookies. Alice and i became very good friends with that snack machine. In the beginning of january it was decided that i was well enough to continue my at home. I would begin the ot mpt on an outpatient basis and i was ready ready. When i got off the elevator in my home the first thing i saw was balloons around my door welcome me home. Can you imagine how that made me feel . That was just the beginning. When i opened the door this 40yearold carpet that was disintegrating before my eyes was gone. The floor was absolutely clean. The furniture that had been in the way and impossible for me to move around the apartment easily was gone. My refrigerator was restocked. The mattress i had was set up and ready for me to lay down as soon as i was tired and in general i looked around the apartment and i said wow this is wonderful. Every day the two weeks i have been home someone has come and to continue to make improvements to my apartment. My Guardian Angel jennifer comes in every day and so far that two of us have filled up three huge garbage bags with stuff, things i didnt even know i had, things i knew i had that i didnt want. Anyone who walks into my apartment says why does it look so much bigger . Its not. Its a small studio but its not as cluttered as it was before. So, i started to think about my journey over the past three months and i said you know what, getting help is really not that bad. Independence is a state of mind and instead of diminishing made it empowers me to return to the life i had dts before the stroke. So i now think of myself as a very independent person with benefits. [applause] thats one story from beth. You are going to hear one another. Most of you i think when you think of sarita gupta you think of a codirector across generations or the fiery leader of the wonderful jobs with justice a nationwide group that brings together people of faith, Community Groups and student groups and labor and fights for economic and social justice but tonight she is going to tell you her story so sarita gupta. [applause] thank you john. So the other night while i was packing my daughter into bed she said to me mommy im going to miss my room one day that im going to miss my home. I was really taken aback by this comment. We had a short conversation. I had a short conversation with her. I was both saddened and heartened by the conversation. Saddened that at four years old my little baby girl is worried about leaving home someday but heartened that for her her home is a place of love and a place of security and safety. Its a lot like the way i think about my childhood home as well. Growing up my home was full of life, lots and lots of people. My parents are incredibly social so our house became the center of gatherings of all types. Everything from neighborhood cocktail parties to dinner parties, two big celebrations. We just had a constant flow of houseguests are our house as well. So i had very few memories of ever being alone in my home. At the center of all of this were my parents. My parents were my foundation, my rock. They supported me through everything. They nurtured me and encouraged me and frankly they loved me into the person i have become. My dad he used to work really long hours but he managed to make it home every night for dinner or to kiss me goodnight. He is the kind of man do as a child you would say hey dad what is a Lunar Eclipse and his rounds response would be thats a great question. You should look it up in the encyclopedia write a little reported lets talk about it at dinner tomorrow. That was classic dad. My mom is this amazing woman who i dont know how she managed. She would drive me all over town for all of my activities. She would also on top of driving me all over town drive my brother and my sister all over town. She would manage our house and on top of it we would would have a homecooked dinner every single might. Together they just created an amazing home for me. A few years ago i was visiting her family gathering. We have are visiting my sister at the time out in california. My dad asked my sister for some ice cubes for his drink so my sister said im really sorry dad i am out of ice cubes that i just filled up the ice tray and i will stick it in the freezer and it will be done soon. It will be ready. So about three minutes later my father asked for ice cubes again again. I was like whats going on . I looked at my mom and i looked at my sister. Is he kidding around . So my sister just replied that she was out of ice cubes. But then five minutes later my father asked for ice cubes again. At that moment my heart sank. It sank because he really was not kidding. He had forgotten that he had asked about ice cubes. So my mom had been warning us for a while that something was just a little bit off with my dad. He seemed to be forgetting things and i just thought she was exaggerating. Like really i was like he has always been a little bit of an absentminded professor type right . So soon after my father was indeed diagnosed with alzheimers. My family gathered together again to talk about what we could do to support him. Because about all kinds of options. Eventually they should move out of their house. Eventually they should move in with one of us and what should we do. The truth of it was nothing seemed urgent at the time. We knew we needed to figure it out but my parents could take care of themselves and manage it on their own. So about a year ago i was home for an extended visit and while i was home i noticed this crack in the wall of and entryway in our house. I said mom did you see this crack . She was like oh i actually didnt see it. She had been so preoccupied with my fathers health and his needs that she didnt notice this crack in the wall. So i asked her mom, do you need me to do anything . Can i help with this . She said no, no no i will call the repair guy that will totally be okay so was going to be okay. This past summer our family gathered again because we gathered to celebrate my parents 50th wedding anniversary which was just a very cool celebration. We had a mere 300 of their closest friends gather. It was really fun though while i was home i realized that the house seemed a little more run down. In fact my brother pointed out the crack in the wall again. I looked at it and i realized it had gotten worse and in fact i could literally see the foundation crumbling. And then my sister pointed out light fixtures that werent working anymore amongst many other things that seem to not be working in the house. So i approach my mom and i said mom can i help . Im going to be given for the next few days. Is there anything i can do to help you with the stuffed . She was like no i have called bobbys repair guys and they were all going to come and i just got distracted by the party and i couldnt get it all done before you guys came home. Dont worry. Its fine i will take care of it. I just want you to relax and enjoy your time here. So i was like okay everything is fine, everything is under control. But then the next morning i noticed that my daughter and my knees were playing on the couch where my father sits and they seemed to be pulling things out of the couch. So i walked over to see what was going on and what i realized was that my father, the seat where my father sits was actually broken and that my father had stuffed the seat with cushions and a blanket and put a blanket on top of it so nobody could see that his seat was broken. I was stunned so i asked my mom mom did you know his seat was broken . My mom said yes, i know but its his favorite spot on the couch and besides i cant move the couch by myself. I dont know what to do. I then asked my dad about it in my dad said yeah but its okay im perfectly comfortable. I like the seat. Its my favorite spot. Im totally fine. I however cried. I just could not believe that he was sitting in the broken seat. I just couldnt believe at that moment i finally accepted that everything was not okay. I was so mad at myself. How could it be how could i believe that everything was fine fine . My fathers alzheimers was progressing. My mom is overwhelmed with everything. How is it possible that i actually believed everything was okay . So a little while later my family regrouped and i said to my parents mom dad i think you need to move out. I really want you to move to Silver Springs maryland where i live where my sister lives, where my family lives. You can move in with us. It was the hardest conversation to ever have. Can you imagine for me to tell my parents to leave their home of 40 years the community that they built for 40 years and to say this isnt working. It was really really heartwrenching conversation. But at the end my parents agreed that it was just too much for them to do by themselves anymore. So a few weeks ago over the holidays my husband and my daughter and i drove up to rochester new york and we helped my parents pack up their things. I cried most of the way there. Its hard to let go of your sense of home, your sense of security, your sense of love so we packed up as much as we could and brought everything back and brought my parents back and move them into our home. So you see the other night when my daughter told me that she was going to miss her home and her room someday she also said to me, she also asked me, mommy did you miss your mommy and daddy when he left for college . I said i did but you know what its a natural part of growing up in its okay. Everything was fine and look we are all under one roof now. And she smiled as she thought about that for a little bit and then she looked up at me and said mommy will you go to college with me. [laughter] i noted that. Im really thinking about it. [laughter] thank you. [applause] thank yous sarita. I have the advantage of having read the age of dignity so i will tell you its full of stories like saritas and like aljen and he will meet aljen and her grandmother. The book tells you what to do in addition to reading the stories it tells you what to do. I want to invite aljen poo backup for four or five minutes to layout a bit of the agenda of this campaign carrying across generations and then we will open it up for questions so aljen poo. [applause] so you heard the story and there are so many more. I think each of us in this room probably have their own version of it. Rosalynn carter famously said and i quoted her in the book that there are only four kinds of people in the world people who are caregivers who will be caregivers people who need care in people who will need care and truthfully probably more than one of those identities at any given moment. This is something that is this amazingly universal connective tissue across our experiences. The stories enhance that for us. And we point towards the solutions that we need solutions that are interconnected. And carrying across generations brings together across the experience of the care spectrum towards solutions that actually do three things at once. Improve the quality of care that people are receiving at approved improve affordability accessibility and choice of people can actually have care choices that reflect their specific needs which can be very incredibly different across the spectrum and third improve the quality of these jobs so that every last caregiving jobs in this country is one that you can really take pride in, sustain your families on so that one generation can do better than the next. We are a nation of solution areas. We have build infrastructure and we have bought electricity and Running Water and someday soon the internet to everybody in america and we will upgrade the infrastructure. We call it the care grid to bring care to every home in america. It begins with all of us here in this room. The call to action coming out of this conversation is for you to actually go home to your dinner tables and have a conversation with two simple guiding questions. The first being how do we as a family prepare for future caregiving needs . So it allows us to look towards the future and prepare together take it on together and aim towards the future together. The second question is what do we imagine could be the joys of aging and caring for one another in the future . Moving the conversation from a place of scarcity and fear and avoidance to one of embrace of that of all that might come including the joys that could come from taking care of one another in the future. We thank that will create a different context for the public conversation about public solutions. How do we make caregiving a National Priority and every conversation about the future of this country . This is a really good place to do that because 2015 is the ear of the white house conference on aging. Its a conference that only happens once every 10 years and its a platform for us to take this conversation precisely into the realm of National Priority and straight into the election cycle of next year where we can challenge each and every one of our elected officials to answer the question how will we be helping our families prepare and made our caregiving needs for the future . What will you do to help us meet our caregiving needs for the future . We are asking all of you to join this movement to have these conversations help us drive a million care conversation such that we can actually drive the kind of National Public dialogue and sense of priorities that this is a real priority for all of us Going Forward as we shape the future and a way that enhances all of our dignity. So here is the web site, join the carrying across america by the book, join the movement and help us make life better for the people we care about and the people who care about the people that care about them. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you aljen poo. We now have 15 or 20 minutes for your questions and comments. Im going to ask you to come up here. I see here Mary Beth Maxwell who is ready to say a word who is the Principle Deputy assistant secretary for policy and the Labor Department and who has been a great ally of the sort of agenda that aljen and sarita have put forward. Raise your hand Sarah Anderson and others but i ask you to, because we need you to hear if you cant make it appear we also can pass the mic around. You also get into the cspan mike and as you are thinking about this i know you are also all making a list of the people you can buy a copy of the age of dignity four. I was sitting near making my list and i encourage you to continue. First Mary Beth Maxwell is wonderful to have you join us. Thank you john. Thank you john and ips for being the most amazing investors in a nation of leaders. [applause] i bring greetings from the fan club at the department of labor for aljen poo and carrying across generations and sarita gupta. Im going to buy a copy of your books not although every request. I just finished listening to articulate of it warns a fighting chance and it felt like i was having a bedtime story every night being goaded him what i could do more for Economic Security and listening to aljen read wouldnt we all like a recorded version of the age of dignity and we could listen to aljen. [applause] i just want to share one quick story of the first meeting that aljen joined me for the department of labor where she knit together this incredible combination of a couple of women workers themselves coming in person to tell their stories. Its actually not usually what happens in the department of labor. An incredible sophisticated analysis of the policies that impacted them and a persistent loving competence that we at tol could and should do something about. That is aljen poo. We could never have gotten to the homecare rule and that his decades long minimum wage and overtime protections for 2 million women workers that are still waiting for those protections. We could not done that without aljen without tearing across generations and without sarita and many of you in this room. That to me is with this book is about and i cannot wait to see what is next. Im so proud of what we have done together and i cant wait to see what you call us next to do. Thank you aljen. [applause] thank you. Sarah anderson. Thanks john. Im really motivated to come up here and just urge everyone in this room to do what they can to promote this book. John mentioned earlier at the 3 million copies could be sold in short order that they could be on the New York Times bestsellers list and she was telling us something that will last 200 people to get on the bestsellers list maybe two or three were people of color. More importantly i would challenge everyone to look at the New York Times bestsellers list and think about what books are on their better of such importance to so many people in this country. We need to be having this National Conversation of which i wish my own family had started it before we did. I had a hard time listening to her story tonight that ill bet a lot of you did too. Write the blogs, but reviews on line send it out through social media channels. We should all be doing a lot to generate this National Conversation through this book. Thank you sarah. [applause] others that would like to ask a question . And if there are others who would rather do it from where you are seated just raise your hand. Hi. Could you please talk a little bit about aging in place and perhaps think about the possibility of this book becoming a staple of aging in place villages and their networks . Thank you. Actually i meant to just say the Solutions Part of the book is rich with amazing communitybased solutions that have been developed by people like the Village Movement and the capital villages here. Im going to invite you to come and say little bit more about the capital village. They are featured in the book right now the state of maine has a comprehensive policy agenda called to keep me Home Initiative thats been championed by the speaker of the house in maine and it is a conference of Center Policies for the state that supports aging in place everything from better wages for caregivers to fixing Transportation Systems to supporting efforts like Village Movements. Taking care of your loved ones far away from you. There are wonderful communitybased solutions that people are developing that we should be supporting and figuring out how we create a policy framework, a care grid that really feeds and allows for beautiful things like the capital village. Good evening. My name is mary proctor and i i was the president of the village for four years and deeply involved and committed to the capitol hill village. We have been around for seven years. We have 400 individual members who pay 800 a month for individuals and 550 a month for subsidized memberships of 100 or 200 a month. But that they gain access to vendors that will calm and repair their houses, fix their computers that are known to be highquality. They also gain access to about 300 volunteers who will give them rides to places they need to go and will come also to look at their computers to change lightbulbs. There are 20 different affinity groups ranging from literary clubs to Cancer Support groups and personally my husband and i had 200 people that lived on the hill that did not know had become friends. Which is really kind of strange. [applause] let me correct that. 800 a year less than most gym memberships. Thank you so much. While you are coming up very practical samples and it also has a whole section on holding a the Political Economic and cultural power and it ends with resources for families so it is practical. We have about five to seven more minutes for questions and comment and then we can wrap it up. We met a little earlier. I was recently diagnosed with an illness and i never expected to have my mom pushed me around in a wheelchair. There are younger and younger people adjusting to these chronic offices and parents that are adjusting to things like arthritis. Thank you for asking that question. The way that we do it is with a multigenerational movement. And we think the time is more right than ever before for more care, more choices support and services for all of us and when we think about the millennial generation they are such powerful forces for change. The size is one thing but they are also culture driving and if anyone is going to change the way that its going to be done is millennial. They can create richness and solution all around. We understand the locations in the care infrastructure for people of all ages and stability is. So i hope that you will all get involved and take this as the queue at your leadership is needed Going Forward. Here in the suit. Come on up. [laughter] you have a beautiful red tie. Imh area to an end father of a 4yearold and a 1yearold. You mentioned that it would be 65 or older. In 2020 there will be no racial or ethnic majority. As we look across the generation, what are the opportunities to buy into the society as we transition into these amazing demographic transitions to create potentially the aircraft generation of the social contract. You may each want to take a stab at that and the opportunity to say anything else that you would like to say for folks to be able to get involved in this campaign. I will start. I appreciate that question. When we developed that it was in the demographic shift in mind. There is an enormous opportunity for us to think about how we are leaving a whole new social contract in the fabric of the nation. And the truth is i want to go back to this point about the multigenerational relationships and the of the importance of multigenerational relationships that help bridge a lot of the gaps. They worked hard in the campaign to think about people that are aging and people with disabilities and their caregivers themselves whether they are family caregivers of the workers themselves and really that demographics. Also looking at people like myself that are in this generation but also trying to figure out how to meet the needs of our chill for an and also of our aging parents in households in the midst of death. That. So, again it goes back to how we maximize choice for families. How are we pushing a social and political agenda in this country that actually values care and theyll use caregiving and a powerful pretty and how in fact are we helping all of us in this room even to understand that we all do better when we do better and if so how it is all connected if we can all be lifted up in a different way there is so much more opportunity that we can create. We learned quickly in this campaign that too often there is this happening against the community is so it is literally watching younger people of color who needed more economic stability, pitted against the interest of the majority aging population and we see multiple examples in city after city and state after state. If you think about the solutions and not not be pitted against one another that allow us to lift up against the Economic Needs of the communities of colors that looked up the needs of aging america and help us forge the kind of jobs we need to create and the kind of support and services that we need in this country to ensure that all of us can live with dignity, all of us can work with dignity and age with dignity and if it is really the goal and the vision and the campaign of this effort. [applause] it takes a village. Late to write a book and many of you are part of that process. [inaudible] and building the movement so looking forward to those that havent worked directly to begin a relationship and start working together. There is a lot more to do. [applause] thank you so much to all of you. I just want to remind you all of you have relatives and friends and other countries and this book the age of dignity is about to be celebrated and talked about in 16 cities around the country and they are lifted in the generations website so you can find out where the events are coming from. Carrying across america im so used to carrying across generations. Now, the way this works, there is a beautiful workshop out here teaching for change and i would ask if you would buy books and we would be in the corner to sign them for the next 20 minutes and then we will move the party out there. And i do want to end just with the point that was made this audience is filled with the leaders and it is filled with people that are coming into this for the first time. It is meant to be the age of dignity but also in action event and celebration so i would encourage you to stay come introduce yourself to people you dont know, get involved in the campaign and buy books. 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