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From you guys who are, you know, in it. What you think would make the biggest difference. What you think would be most helpful. Since you asked it, why dont you i feel it is very taboo to speak about it in the native american communities, especially the older adults might think that it is. But i think the youth are really ready to speak about it. I feel there should be a little bit more support in the school system. Some of the schools ive actually got to work with on the reservation, they dont ...

Part of what the goal for this work was to bring people who have such expertise in this area with people like myself who actually touched the lives of many people in our world and i just say in home support alone we have 22000 people and we have Palliative Care recipients. I had to figure out as much as i could and how to include the services. Before you talk about alzheimers and dimension Strategic Plan and the coordinating council, this is a part of that work as well. We learned about an area ...

People. So there is some pride having being a part of it and the hours i gave to the commission here or i should say the workgroup is actually vindicated by the fact that so much came out. Another was how can we sustain this, not just coming together. Remember the longterm care council appeared before us and this is a Perfect Place for them to then assist in moving that agenda, i think outside services is a very good example and something that will occur and bringing this to the table with all t...

Everybody has their preferences about their treatment well understood to make sure we are respecting their wishes and preferences. Shortterm are those individuals who had a high illness burdens, from the treatment of conditions and illness. That focus is to gather data around gaps and needs for that population. Then our second deliverable, well, our second deliverable you heard about around the inventory of Palliative Care resources within our community. This is really an amazing experience to b...

You that Palliative Care is not an area of expertise for me. I have had experience with this kind of work but never really under taken to understand what it meant professionally. So i had a lot of learning to do and thank goodness i was surrounded by people with dr. Chow and dr. Christine ritchie and who really understand this subject because professionally is what they do day in and day out. Part of what the goal for this work was to bring people who have such expertise in this area with people...

Just say in home support alone we have 22000 people and we have Palliative Care recipients. I had to figure out as much as i could and how to include the services. Before you talk about alzheimers and dimension Strategic Plan and the coordinating council, this is a part of that work as well. We learned about an area we needed to learn about and new very little about and it was also an opportunity for people in the medical world to understand the work that goes on in the community outside of the ...

Where we have recommendations in our quality section around assuring that actually we are measuring quality of care and that we are actually addressing quality of care. Right now part of the challenge is that a lot of the naturally endorsed measures around Palliative Care are in the adolescent phase in terms of actually the care of the measures, but there is still sufficient for us to get good information in terms of the quality audits and the quality of the data, thats something i think we are ...

Enthusiastically because the only way to get where we want to go is to have a system in place for these issues in a structured way. Thanks. Commissioner sanchez . I want to congratulate you for an excellent presentation. California on aging was here in San Francisco and they were reviewing a number of programs and changes and at that point saying we are now just getting under way whether it be the hospital or community model, etc, but we are going to do that. This is an outcome of what has trans...

Quality audits and the quality of the data, thats something i think we are going to have to figure out where that accountability is coming from. If you were in our shoes would you approve this resolution before you knew that . I would approve it enthusiastically because the only way to get where we want to go is to have a system in place for these issues in a structured way. Thanks. Commissioner sanchez . I want to congratulate you for an excellent presentation. California on aging was here in S...

I remember having a conversation – nearly 10 years ago this month — with a staff member as we were moving into the new buildings on Hospice of the Panhandle’s