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silent. we want equality within our lgbt community. thank you. chair kim: thank you. next, we have frank strona and helene wenzel. frank is not here, then helene wenzel and james illig. i am awed by your work on my behalf. i m a solo practitioner. i do estate planning in elder law for 15 years in the greater bay area. i worked with horizons, new leaf and other organizations, relevant to our community, to bring vital information to the lgbt aging community as well as the lgbt younger community. my clients have been singles, couples, rdts, partners, married same-sex, couples from generation x to folks in their 90 s, i also did lgbt work little did i know i would be doing elder lgbt work very quickly. i ve addressed many different organizations, churches, community groups, and shared what i know about aging, and about the law, about advanced healthcare directives. i ve done them for groups where i ve brought my notary book and handed things out for free, quote unquote. ....
training in long-term care facilities. i ve put a strong emphasis in helping seniors to know their rights and prioritizing issues of lgbt, and transgender seniors. in 2011 i worked with planning for elders open house and transgender law center to create navigating the system specifically covering rights and benefits issues of california lgbt elders. in july i worked with the human rights commission affecting lgbt seniors. these must take center stage of the task force. i am particularly interested in investigating ways to expand access to life planning documents to low income lgbt seniors. this is a vital issue for our community. two-thirds of mid-life lgbt community identify family as the law center said they or someone they knew had a life planning document disrespected. life planning documents remain out of reach for low income seniors. we must find that all of our families and seniors can determine for themselves who should make important decisions regarding medic ....
they re a nonprofit traditional chinese medicine integrated holistic approach solving medical issues. since 1997 to 2009 i worked as a financial investigator doing many different things regarding terrorist funding et cetera, doing 65, 75 hours a week and realized this was very stressful. i no longer could do it. i ve been hiv positive for 21 years now and glad to say that the therapy has allowed me to transcend into the massage therapy field. i work with lgbt seniors on a day-to-day basis. i thank you for your consideration. chair kim: thank you, mr. cuffey. next we have jorge rodriguez and kathleen hentges. i am jorge rodriguez here from district 9. i work there in the hiv clinic. i have been working with hiv community for the past 17 years. i have been very much involved among all the tasks that we do for our clients in getting political asylum for our clientele. i m also part now of the gay lgbt aging committee sponsored by i was also appointed by the mayor to ....
we support. it s not enough to just take care of one or even just some of the aspects of an individual s life. because we are all so much greater than just any one facet. and this particular lens is going to be imperative for the task force s success. when i was thinking about what i might want to say i was reminded of a dinner i had earlier this summer with a shabti supporter and i said as i often do it s really simple, the heart of shanti is that no one should have alone when they re really sick. the supporter gently corrected me and said no one should have to be alone, period. and i think that s one of the great legacies of our community of san francisco, the way we strive to ensure that no one is invisible, that all voices are heard and i think this task force and the objectives are great illustrations of this endearing trait. this is what i ve dedicated myself to do and hope i have a chance to do for the task force. thanks for your time. chair kim: thank you. we ....
the gay community is magnified in retirement and i fear the large number of people pushed into poverty and services will be quite large as baby boomers retire in greater numbers. i feel my understanding of the financial and tax issues faced by the lgbt community may be of service to this task force. in addition my time at stage and experience with my father taught me financial security is not the only problem facing gays seniors. i would like to see elder abuse issues, housing and social welfare addressed. these issues affect outline seniors but they have unique challenges when applied to the lgbt community. i want to help the city prioritize, be able to recommend small changeses to existing services when needed and recommend big improvements when wanted. chair kim: thank you. we have kaushik roy and then kim schoen. good afternoon. my name is kaushik roy. it has been my privilege to be the executive director at the shanti project which is one of the city s oldest ....