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Had the pleasure of serving on the task force and i want to thank supervisors weiner and campos and former supervisor olague for your vision in putting this together because it would not have happened unless you would have done that, i also want to thank bill in particular on the task force and i very much appreciated my colleagues but bill put this together and pulled it together in an effective way and we would not have had the report that we had without his guidance. And so, one of the things...

And im representing sciu, 101 and one thing i want to i just want to say that im a San Francisco native. I grew up here and i grew up in the mission. Whats happening to this city right now is outrageous. I dont even recognize whats going on in this city anymore as far as everybodys moving out. Nobody can afford to live here. Its ridiculous. My clients, i cant house my clients anymore. Its sad. They come into my program, we treat them for three months and theyre right back on the streets and gues...

Be living with some other form of dementia. Using the citys 12 percent estimate of the lgbt senior population it can be extrapolated that by 2020 over 4,000 lgbt older adults over the age of 65 will be challenged by some form of als hiemer dementia. Heterosexual rely on family members to secure medical information and Access Service and to provide support, but research has shown that elder adults that are twice as likely to be single and live along as heterosexual and less likely to have Adult C...

Support. I want to talk to you this morning about a crisis. That the city and the Lgbt Community is facing together. And it is in demencika, do not let your response to this crisis be lost in the urgent and important recommendations for housing security and affordability and other much needed services. By 2020, the total population of older adults in San Francisco living with alzheimers disease will be 26,774 older adults. And another ten,000 people will be living with some other form of dementi...

Underlying theme in all of our recommendations that it is something that all of us on the task force became aware of as we gathered data. And that is, a lot of us who are aging now, the boomer generation, and we really wanted to stay in our own homes. And as long as possible. And out of the home, that our parents might be in now, and it is a generational thing, i think. And so, a lot of our recommendations actually attempted to begin to instead of look at how you do that, how do you allow people...

Purge, that is the Housing Authoritys word on purging the list and a lot of the people on the list have impairments in terms of maybe not a permanent address but of a friends address and they may not go there to check their mail or be in what impaired by bad choices of lifestyle. And to be waiting on a list and be eliminated is just seems in congress with the whole idea with the Housing Authority is supposed to do. And i would like to see more moneys spent rather than someone leaving a legacy of...

For support but the families of choice are not friends similar in age who may have relocated passed away or in need of services themselves. This difficult as it is, there are chronic illnesses that a person can manage at home on their own such as asthma. The older adults with alzheimers who are without benefits of the formal support system are vulnerable to receiving little or no care to assist them to remain in their homes, if you dont have a place and a plan and some understanding of the disea...

Even recognize whats going on in this city anymore as far as everybodys moving out. Nobody can afford to live here. Its ridiculous. My clients, i cant house my clients anymore. Its sad. They come into my program, we treat them for three months and theyre right back on the streets and guess what, it recycles all over again back to general hospital, back to our program. Its a crazy vicious cycle that need to end. We got 1. 5, thats great. We need the other 1. 5. Were behind on what we need. Its im...

Our clients nostril people of color foozs homeless. Their resilient and proud of their achievements. Over 60 percent of our clients are in and out undetectedable. Its amazing but hard work. At least 25 percent a full quarter of our Client Community will fall through the cracks. 45 fewer people who can stop the disease from spreading 45 more people are managing their health through the care system. We ask you to lead us again additional keep a argue Prevention Funds hi. Im a peer advocate with th...

And these are workers that with the poorest of the poor and frankly their work is hard and they deserve to be compensated fairly. They deserve to have Family Health care where a lot of folks dont have. Its so expensive that some of them use public assistance. Its unacceptable. White the nonprofit funding has been flat in the last five years which is basically a cut and the private contractors have increase and they had increase of 16point. 4 and addition to landlords that lease with the city get...