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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...

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...

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Rhode island. Caught my tax plan probusiness, pro Economic Development , and a pro job creation. That is what we need, a leader who is willing to tackle the problems of our state with a sense of urgency, and that is what my plan will do. In my experience, and cutting through red tape and building a Better Business environment, it is evident. Take a look at that part of the city. It is thriving, and this should happen in every city and town across the state. And that is what i intend to do. Moder...

When you look at the they have the h1 b visa which means allowing both people can go to singapore and go to the u. S. To work and they never have a problem and they can stay here for long. Why is there an exception toxu. Okay. I dont have a gavel but lets pretend i banged the gavel. I am tommi mecca and i am the chair for the lgbt aging policy task force and the First Business is roll call of the members. Jazzy collins. Present. Jorge rodriquez. Present. Stu smith. Present. And myself present....

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