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Keep us involved in its work. So that we that qualified as lgbt seniors were involved in the work for the first surveys through the focus groups thorough indicational meetings and review the documents. And we are very thankful for the work of the task force and its effort and for the supervisors. And in bringing that about and i personally am thrilled to hear that legislation is already in the works to enact the recommendations of the task force. My fellow sfop leaders stand ready to assist in making those recommendations a reality. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker, pleas...

Im dr. Edelman a former Task Force Member and a cofounder of the open house and the cofounder to the private practice in the city and i want to thank all of my colleagues for all of the hard work that went into the Task Force Recommendations, and special shout out to dos. For all of their support, and we could not have done the work that we did with the task force could not have done the work that we did without their 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 cris...

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 that we quickly realizes is that there are many issues facing our community and we tried to do thin...

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 Children that support them. They rely on family of choice for support but the families of choice are ...

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 dementia. Using the citys 12 percent estimate of the lgbt senior population it can be extrapolated that by ...