Used flexibly without citizens getting in the way. And i think that is what happened over the past several decades notice that our armies of the middle east were armies of professional soldiers recruited very heavily from the south and southwest of military families. As a result, there wasnt much domestic conflict. No one was up in arms over it. The near times would publish basis of the following. If you and i look at this list we seldom saw in the face who recognize because this is a professional army not drawn from the chattering classes. So that is what the government learned. If you can factor the citizens out for the next step because now nobody is fighting. And makes it too easy. We dont like to see casualties. But we dont want it to be too easy to go to war either. Thats the problem in the United States. You know it started to be too easy to use for spirit we are too ready to fight. Our country has five more wars than any other country on the face of the earth. And we are peaceful people. One reason is theres got to be too easy. The president can launch a strike. He can send special operations forces. He can send droves. That is the lesson in this unfortunate that we learned that lesson. Host Benjamin Ginsberg you have a familiar name for us to whos follow politics. Guest a very nice fellow as i was telling you before we started filming. From my mysterious redistricting scheme i said no its the other band ginsberg. They said sure. Host i want to close from this quote from your book the the worth of war. Americas burgeoning regime of domestic secrecy and surveillance beginning with the First World War the u. S. Has undertaken the construction of massive programs and secrecy and surveillance justified by wartime and National Security concerns. These programs however have survived every war conflict to National Security emergency and now seem focused on the general American Public posing as we shall see serious threats to popular freedom. It seems that beating swords into plowshares can produce very dangerous implements. Just code that was very well put a thought. Yes, that is right. I thought this was a very serious issue facing us today. You know the framers of the cause to to shun, the authors of the first amendment, some of whom were framers. Which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. We see that as relating to evidence of crime. If you watch law and order the police are always wondering, doing a search warrant. Can we pretend. So we associate the Fourth Amendment with criminal actions. But the framers did not. The purpose of the amendment was protection against royal troops entering a house and seizing papers that could then be used as the basis for a charge of seditious libel, which was a very common charge used against its enemies. So the framers wrote the Fourth Amendment to guard against the intrusion and seizure papers. Not to guard against misuse of evidence in criminal cases. So the Fourth Amendment has been lost in today we have a state of affairs in which we have reversed the democracy. And then do not proceed citizens should know a lot about their rulers and should know that much about citizens. Citizens should know a lot in order to Public Officials accountable for the elections. They said an audit of Public Officials. They exercise power over them. We have reversed this. We have a system of secrecy and classification preventing the defendants from knowing everything they said about their rulers. In periodically, the secrets will be let out. We have wikileaks. I wonder how many people have looked at these revealed materials. I looked through the wikileaks materials. It could damage the United States in any way except to embellish certain politicians. Wikileaks is filled with some cia agent will file a report of remains Prince Charles is an idea. Okay, probably years. I dont think our security was damaged by revelations. But on the other hand, it is easily possible for the government to spy on us as we have now discovered. People say theyre smittys safeguards and i have nothing to hide so what do i care. But that is dangerous thinking. Our history in this regard is not a good one. It goes back to the First World War with the black chamber and we have Jay Edgar Hoover and nixon and if the government has the capacity to listen to our phone calls, the temptation to abuse that capacity is great. And again, if were all angels, James Madison no other assorted and James Madison said if men were angels we went a government. Its because men are not angels that we have to have safeguards in place. Benjamin ginsberg was an author, John Hopkins UniversityPolitical Science professor. We have been talking about his most recent book reviews written about 20. The worth of war. You are watching booktv on cspan2. Next aijen poo some occur caregiver system can handle it. [applause] good evening. You can do better than that. Good evening. I think we should start with all of you giving your sons a round of applause for coming out on a cold winter evening to talk about aging and caregiving. Give yourselves a round of applause please. And we are really just so thrilled to be with you tonight to celebrate the official publication date of the age of dignity. Today is the official publication date. [cheers and applause] we are kicking off a book tour carrying across america. You will be the first to help us kick off at bookstore right here in the capital. And it is really fitting that we are doing this right here in the capital because four years ago in july sarita and i and many of you and mr. Launched a campaign with caring across generations. From around the country come a beautiful multiracial, multigenerational group of people who said we want to build a movement in this country for a more caring americana, a more caring economy that works for families and for workers and supports us all to live with dignity at every stage of life. Four years later, we are building in cities and states around the country. We have reached almost three quarters of a million senior voters every year talking to them about caregiving and aging and longterm care in how we prepare for the future. And we have been working hard to pass homecare, a rule change that will bring 2 million home care workers under minimum wage and overtime protections for the first time in the history of this country. [applause] so our movement for a more caring future is under way. It is growing and its making a difference. But really, this is just the beginning and we are hoping that the age of dignity opens up another platform for us to continue building the conversation and noted this momentum towards the solution that we actually need for the future. And that is the age of dignity is truly about about solutions and stories. Your stories my story sarita stories, family caregivers grappling with how to manage caregiving for the aging loved ones. Stories about home care workers who really take pride in the work that they do and yet still struggle earning poverty wages to make ends meet. And support their families. The people we count time to care for our families and our loved ones can take care of their own with the state of the jobs in the homecare sector today. And it stories about people who are aging and growing older in this country and struggling to do so in a way that recognizes the dignity and the choice of the ability of all of us to be able to live well as we age. The truth is we are aging as a nation. There is no denying. This year in 2015 4 million of us will turn 65. 4 million of us will turn c5 in this country and that means that by the year 2030, 20 of americans will be over the age of 65. My grandmothers demographic of 87 and older is the Fastest Growing demographic of this country and people are just living longer because of the dances in the health care and medicine and technology longevity is extending and the baby boom generation reaches retirement age is creating the largest older population weve ever had in the history of this country. And what that means is by the year 2050 27 million americans will need some form of longterm care or assistance just to meet our basic daily needs. 27 million of us. We dont have a plan. We dont have a plan. Our families are prepared. You will see in the boat that my family wasnt prepared. We dont have a plan. Our country is prepared. In what seems like an immense challenge i believe and we across generations believe is actually an incredible opportunity. It is an opportunity to not only transformed the 3 million direct care jobs that have been poverty waged, unsustainable jobs into good jobs for the 21st century that you can take pride and, but also the opportunity to make sure that our work and family care policies actually reflect the needs of 21st century working families. Also an opportunity to make sure that everyone of our loved ones who took care of us like my grandfather and my grandmother had the choices that they deserved as they grow older to the with dignity life on their terms. So that is the opportunity before us to create the kinds of solutions that uplift us all. You will see in the age of dignity that there are so many stories and solutions already out there that point the way. Seeds of the future we must create together. And it is truly a future that we must create together. Its each of us as individuals preparing and planning. Its about our families preparing and planning to move in a conversation that has been historically laden with fear and anxiety into one of possibility and abundance and connections. That is a challenge before us. We will take the conversation that each of us are probably having in some way shape or form. If for not having a conversation, we are struggling in some way shape or form and we will take it together in communities into the National Public conversation about the future of this country. That is the task and that is the opportunity at hand. And the age of dignity resolutions and stories that point away and we are going to talk more about next steps before we close out the program. But the theme of tonight mirrors the book. We are going to talk about the power of story to drive social change. Never before has there been this issue that we are all touched by and yet touched by a net as something that doesnt appear in the National Public conversation about our priorities, policy priorities in the future is not reflected back to us. So by lifting up the stories and through the stories you will hear tonight, you will see a reflection of the heart and soul in the courage and resilience and the possibilities for the future of caregiving in america. [applause] and lewis started off with a story from the book. This works now . Okay good. At the end of her career, providing care for others 66yearold yogi berra tagore is gradually retiring. This means working last night entirely by choice as she has aged has he come harder to both find work and do the actual work. She is still looking. She still needs to send money home to her family in the philippines and save for her own health care and retirement. Thankfully, she received a spot in government subsidized housing a small onebedroom apartment in a Senior Housing complex in chicago. Otherwise she could not afford a roof over her head. Travel has always been a passion of hers dared this imagery to support her family brought her to the United States in 2004 from the philippines. Over the years, youll meet has collected treatments had ornaments like family. They fill every corner of her small home. Many items have an asian origin but this series of three paintings of Cherry Blossoms hanging over the wall by the stove. Every time she hosts a filipinoamerican Grandparents Association meeting in her apartment she is proud to share the meaning behind the paintings. The Grandparents Association as a celebration and this year shes been diligently rehearsing a broadway medley with the choral group. She is excited that it includes the savor of news of all the sound of music. After showing the most significant items in the collection, shed lay those out a bowl of macaroni soup that has a light milky broth with elbow macaroni and several kinds of needs, most of which i cant identify with the exception of sausage. The eclectic mix mirrors to deport her small apartment here shes a very good cook all of her clients have told her. If i wanted her to make Filipino Food for them. Shes introduced many chicago seniors to chicken adobo another soft foods and the philippine cuisine which make swallowing easier. Theyre taking care of people with alzheimers. The most challenging clients of all in her mind. Her last clients were a couple appeared eager woman with alzheimers and her 92yearold has done. She didnt want to take a bath or stand up, so i took my time. I waited for her. Though it takes a lot of patience. I worked there less than five years. They had no more money, put her in a nursing home in three months later she died. The husband died last night and that is why i have no work. Her mother in the philippines has alzheimers and pays for caregivers. I dont want a nursing home so im sending money. looking for a new job. Its been longer since i work through an agency. She lives in fear of getting sick and put in a nurse being put in a nursing home here in the United States. I dont want to go to a nursing home. They have a lot of patience. Its hard for them to attend to you. They dont take care of the affair. They didnt give her food. Id rather go home to the philippines. If we get sick therere people to take care of us. For now, johnny has bills to pay. She keeps on caring for others. As we envision a future in which we take care of americas families across generations we must create systems that adequately honor and compensate joanie marlene, d. C. , berlin but in the millions of other workers care. The people whose profession would not have trouble feeding our caring for their own children and the people who provide care for others would receive support for their own retirement and the caring future we must create with honor, respect and value precious labor that these workers provide, the care upholding our society. The independence and productivity we treasure as individuals of all ages require the work of caregivers at their foundation. With appropriate pay, benefits and Employee Support such as childcare along with training and a career ladders, and these can be respect to both family sustaining jobs. Turning caregiving jobs into dignified jobs will have a Ripple Effect on society on the economy and on the spiritual health. We affirm the dignity of people at every stage of life into old age and in every walk of life including caregiving. [applause] aijen poo reading from her book, the age of dignity. This larger project is linked with the storytelling project that is helping to train and encourage people to tell their stories. We are going to start with one on a video appear behind me on the screen from bad ingle man who has spent the Partner Group of caring across generations a new york city teacher for 30 years. Shes an active Public Servant and harder. She taught us to take screen at coney island and so dedicated to the community that she worked there throughout her career, commuting from the Upper West Side until her retirement in the early 1990s. She also spent 36 years volunteering at the cancer center, the Adoption Center at the aspca at her synagogue soup kitchen. Now at the age of 80 she keeps in touch with her former student or face the. I ask you to turn your attention to the screen to share the story. Ive always lived my life is a very independent person. I am not but then she had my brother and things change. I said this is my opportunity for independence. Let me go to school. So we had a discussion and i was a pretty responsible kid, said they felt they could probably do it here but i didnt know was the first week i went on my own my father was behind me. Blast mac he mustve been satisfied because the rest of the time i was in elementary school. So i needed [inaudible] and then i started feeling a different way. And then by mobility became a little more challenge. [inaudible] the walker had four wheels for much mobility and if the two said on in case i got tired. And then a back stand to hold things. This walker was my constant companion. So i thought i really needed a name for it. [laughter] alice and i walk up and down broadway. We do what we like to do. We go where we want to go. We are totally independent and loving my life. September 20th, 2014 things changed. Someone i go to because ive got terrible feet. He does all these things. This time i left his office, still in pain and i noticed that my left foot was dragging them as much as i tried to walk faster, i was in snail mode. I realize something was wrong. I took myself to the urgent care center. The doctor said you had to go to the er and have an mri. So i was admitted to the unit and i was there for the next five days. It was that long before encountered two of the most dreaded symbols of total independence. The call button in the. The first time i rang the call button, it took so long that i figured they were coming from a galaxy far, far away. I said whoever designed this says nothing about human anatomy. If theres anything worse than waiting for a bed. Its waiting and waiting and waiting for them to take it away. The social worker suggested i go to understand my disease. It couldve been a better choice. I got therapy on a daily basis. I always encourage [inaudible] so i went from a wheelchair and my first big breakthrough is in allison i went to the bathroom by ourselves. [inaudible] what an accomplishment. There we walked unaccompanied to the dining room three times each day. But the big triumph was when i got on the elevator, went down to the first lawyer and took myself over to the snack machine. And i got myself some potato chips. Alice and i became very good friends but that snack machine. In the beginning of january, i was well enough to continue and i was ready. The first thing i saw was an arch of balloons around my door. Can you imagine how that made me feel . When i opened the door this 40yearold carpet fibers can degrade it was gone. Furniture that then in the way and made it impossible for me to move around the apartment easily with god. My refrigerator was restocked. The mattress i ordered was set up for me to lay down as soon as i was tired eared in general have looked around the apartment and every day in the two weeks ive been home someone had come in to continue to make improvements to my apartment. My Guardian Angel comes in every day and so far the two of us still filled three huge garbage bags full of stuff, things i didnt know i had come it seems had that i didnt want. But anyone who wanted to is in a small studio. So i started to think about my journey over the past three months. It is really not that bad. Ivo mac that a diminishing me it empowers me to return to the life i lead. For i dont see myself as a very independent person. [applause] that is one story. You would hear one another. Most of you i think when you think of the sarita gupta you think of the passionate codirector of caring across generations or the fiery leader of the wonderful jobs with justice, a nationwide group that brings together people of Faith Community groups and labor advisory economic and social justice. I was both saddened and heartened by the conversation. Saddened that at four years old my little baby girl is worried about leaving home some day. But heartened that for her, her home is a place of love and a place of security and safety. Its a lot like think about my childhood home as well. You see, growing up my home was full of life lots and lots of people. My parents are incredibly social, so a house became the center of gatherings of all types, everything from neighborhood cocktail parties to dinner parties to big celebrations. We just had a constant flow of houseguests through our house as well. So i have very few memories of actually ever being alone in my home. And at the center of all this were my parents. My parents were my foundation, my rock, you know . They supported me through everything. They nurtured me encouraged me and, frankly, they loved me into the person that i have become. And my dad, hes this, used to work really, really long hours but he managed to make it home every night for dinner or to kiss me goodnight. And he is the kind of man who as a child, you would say hey, dad, whats a Lunar Eclipse . And his response would be thats a great question. You should look it up in the encyclopedia, write a little report and lets talk about it at dinner tomorrow. That was classic bad. My mom was this amazing woman who, i dont know how she managed. She would drive me all over town for all of my activities. She would also top of driving all over town, drive my brother and sister all over town. She would manage our house, and the top of it we would have a homecooked dinner every single night. Together, they just created an amazing home for me. A few years ago i was visiting family, and my sister at the time was in california. My dad asked my sister for some ice cubes for his drink. So my sister said im really sorry, im out of ice cubes but i just filled up the ice cube tray and i will stick it in the freezer and it will be done soon. So about three minutes later my father asked for ice cubes again. I was like, whats going on . I look at my mom, i look to my sister and like him is he kidding around . My sister just replied that she was out of ice cubes. But then five minutes later my father asked for ice cubes again. And at that moment my heart sank. It sank because he really was not getting. He had forgotten that he had asked about ice cubes. So you see my mom had been warning us for a while that something was just a little bit off with my dad. He seemed to be forgetting things. And i just thought she was exaggerating like really, i was like hes always been a little bit of an absentminded professor type right . So soon after my father was indeed diagnosed with alzheimers. And my family gathered together again to talk about what we could do to support him through it. We talked of all kinds of options, eventually they should move out of the house, eventually they should move in with one of us maybe maybe what should we do . But the truth is none of it seemed very urgent at that time. So we kind of knew we needed to figure it out but my parents could really take care of themselves and manage it on their own. So about a year ago i was home for an extended visit and while i was home i noticed this crack in the wall of like an entryway in our house. And i said mom did you see this crack . Shes like oh actually i didnt see it. She been so preoccupied with my fathers health and his needs that she just didnt notice the crack in the wall. So i asked mom can i help with this quick she said no, no, no. Of which is called the repair guy. It will totally be okay. So it was going to be okay. So then this past summer our family gathered again, because we gather to celebrate my parents to get the wedding anniversary, which was just very cool celebration. We had a mere 300 of their closest friends gather. It was really fun, but while i was home i realized that the house seemed a little more run down. And, in fact, my brother pointed out the crack in the wall again. And i look at it and realized it had gotten worse and in fact i could literally see the foundation crumbling. And by my sister pointed out light fixtures that werent working anymore, amongst many other things that you seem to not be working in the house. So i approached my mom and i said mom you know can help . Im going to be here for the next few days. Is there anything i can help do to deal with the stuff . And she was like no, you know i call all these repair guys and theyre all going to come and i just got distracted by the party and i just couldnt get it all done before you guys came home. Dont worry, please dont worry, its fun. I will take care of it. I just want you to relax and enjoy your time in your. So i was like okay everything is fine, everything is under control. But then the next morning i noticed that my daughter and my niece were playing on the couch where my father sits. And they seemed to be like pulling things out of the couch. So i walked over to see what was going on, and what i realized was that my father, like the seat where my father sits is actually broken. And that my father had stuffed this seat with cushions and a blanket, and put a blanket on top of it so nobody could see that the seat was broken. And i was i was stunned. So i asked my mom did you know his seat was broken . And my mom said yes, i know but its his favorite spot on the couch. And decided i cant move the couch by myself. I dont know what to do. Ive been asked my dad about it and my dad said yet, but you know, what . Its okay. Im perfectly comfortable. I like to see. Its my favorite spot. Im totally fine. I, however, cried. I just could not believe that he was sitting in a broken seat. I just couldnt leave like in that moment, i finally accepted that everything was not okay. I was so mad at myself, like how could it be, like how could i believe that everything was fine . My father, his alzheimers is progressing. My mom is like overwhelmed with everything. How is it possible that i actually believed everything was okay . Where a little while later my family regrouped so a little while later my family regrouped and they said mom, dad, i think you need to move out and i really want you to move to Silver Springs maryland where i live, where my sister lived our families lived, like move in with us. It was the hardest conversation to ever have. Can you imagine, like for me to tell my parents to leave their home of 40 years, the community they built for 40 years, and to say, this isnt working. It was a really really heartwrenching conversation but in the end my parents agreed that it was just too much for them to do by themselves anymore. So a few weeks ago over the holidays, my husband and my daughter and i drove up to rochester, new york, and we helped my parents pack up their things. I cried most of the way there. Its hard to let go of your sense of home your sense of security, your sense of love. So we packed up as much as we could, and brought everything back and brought my parents back, and moved them into our home. So you see, the other night when my daughter told me that she was going to miss her home and her room someday she also said to me, she also asked me, mommy did you miss your mommy and daddy when you left for college . I said i did. But, you know, what its a natural part of growing up and its okay, like everything is fine. Look, we are all under one roof now. She smiled and she thought about that for a little bit and then she looked at me and said mommy, will you go to college with me . [laughter] i noted that. Im really thinking about it. Thank you. [applause] thankthank you, sarita. Ive had the advantage of having read the age of dignity zoologist will take its full of stories like that and youll meet aijens mom and aijens grandmother, the book tells you what to do. In addition to telling you the story, tell us what to do. I want to invite aijen poo backup for for five minutes to layout a bit of the agenda of this campaign and then well open it up for your questions. So aijen poo. [applause] so you heard the stories, and there are so many more and many of us into this room probably have our own version of it. Rosalynn carter famously said and a quarter in the book, that there are only four types of people in the world. People who are caregivers who will be caregivers people who need care and people who will need care. And truthfully, probably more than one of those identities at any given moment. And so this is something that is amazingly universal connective tissue across our experiences. The stories really enhance that for us. And they point towards the solutions that we need solutions that are interconnected and interdependent and carried across generations bring together people across the experience of the care spectrum towards solutions that actually do three things at once. Improve the quality of care that people are receiving, improve accessibility, affordability and choice so that people can actually have care choices that reflect their specific needs which can be varied, incredibly different across the spectrum. And third, improve the quality of these jobs so that every last caregiving job in this country is one that you can really take pride in. So that one generation can do better than the next and so many jobs of the past. We are a nation of solution. We have built infrastructure. We have brought electricity internet driven home in america we can create the infrastructure, we call it the care of bread to bring parachute every home in america. Bring care to every home in america. Socalled action coming out of this conversation is for you to actually go home to your dinner table and have a conversation with two simple tightening questions. The first guiding question. The first is how do we as a family prepare for our future caregiving needs . It allows us to look to the future as we prepare together, taking on together, leaning towards the future together. The second question is what do we imagine could be the joys of aging and caring for one another in the future . Really moving the conversation from the place of scarcity and fear and avoidance to one of embrace about which all that might come including the joy that could come from taking care of one another in the future. And we think it will create a different context for the public conversation we are trying to drive about public solutions. How do we make caregiving a National Priority about, every conversation about the future of this country. And this is a really good year to do that because 2015 is the next, the year of the white house conference on aging, and the conference that happens only once every 10 years. Its a platform for us to take this conversation precisely into the realm of National Priority, and straight into the election cycle next year where we can challenge each and every one of our elected officials to answer the question, how will you be helping our families prepare and meet our caregiving needs . How will you, what will you do to help us meet our caregiving needs for the future . So we are asking all of you to join this movement, to have these conversations, help us to drive a million care conversations such that we can actually drive the kind of National Public dialogues and sense of priorities that this is a real priority for all of us Going Forward as we shape the future in a way that enhances all of our dignity and choice. So heres the website, join the movement and conversation. Report out on your conversations with us i the book join the movement and helpless make life better for the people we care about and the people who care about the people who care for the people who care about us. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you aijen. We now have about 1520 minutes for your questions and comments. Im going to ask you to come up here. Iac here marybeth i see here Marybeth Maxwell is reduce the award was the Principal Deputy secretary for the policy of the Labor Department and whos been a great ally of the sort of agenda that aijen and sarita have put forward. Others, i mean raise your hands but i ask you to come up because we need you to hear [inaudible] yeah and if you cant make it up here we also can pass the mic mentoring. There is merit. And as youre thinking about this i know youre also all making a list of the people you can buy a copy of the age of dignity for. Im assuming youre making my list. Eyed encourage you to continue. I assume we have marybeth so. Its wonderful to have you join us. Thank you john. Thank you john an idea for them to both amazing mentors and invest it in a generation of leaders. [applause] so i bring greetings from the fan club at the department of labor for aijen poo and sarita gupta. Am absolutely going to buy a copy of the book tonight although i have a request. I just finished listening on tape to elizabeth warrens a fighting chance and it felt like i was having a bedtime story every night be encoded on about what i could do more for economic security, and listening to trend aijen read, wouldnt we all love ever recorded version of the age of dignity . We could listen to aijen poo. [applause] i just want to share one quick story of the first meeting that try to join you for of the department of labor where she knit together this incredible combination of a couple of women workers themselves coming in person to tell their stories. Thats not actually usually happens in the old days of the department of labor. And incredible sophisticated analysis of the policy that impacted them, and a persistent, loving confidence that we at dol could and should do something about it. Thats aijen poo right . We could never have gotten to the homecare rule, and thats decades along minimum wage and overtime protections for 2 million women workers were still waiting for those protections. We could not have done that without aijen, without sarita with also many of you in december that to me is what this book is about and i cannot wait to see what is next. I am so proud of all weve done together and i cannot wait to see what you call us next to do. Thank you aijen. [applause] sarah anderson. Thanks, john. I know im going to come across as just a plant in the audience because im really motivated to come. It just urge everyone in this room to do what they can to promote this book. John mentioned earlier that if 3000 copies could be sold in short order that aijen could get off a new kind best sellers list. She was telling us earlier that Something Like at the last two people to get on the best socialist maybe what, two or three were people of color . At the more importantly of which is challenge able to look at the New York Times bestsellers list and think about what books are on their that are of such importance to so many people in this country . We need to be having this a National Conversation. I wish my own family had started it earlier than we did. I had a hard time with this storystore tonight but im sure a lot of you did come to. Put reviews online, send it out for your social media channels. We should all be doing a lot to really generate this National Conversation through this book. [applause] thank you sir. Others who would like to after question sure, come on a. And if there are others who would rather do it from where you are seated just raise your hand. Could you please talk a little bit about the villages and perhaps think about the possibility of this book becoming a staple of networks . Great, thank you. Actually i meant to say that the solution part of the book is enriched with amazing communitybased solutions that have been developed by people like the Village Movement and the d. C. Those the Capital Village is here and going to invite you to come up and say a little bit more about the Capital Village. They are featured in the book, but theres also right now the state of maine has a comprehensive policy agenda called keep me Home Initiative that is being championed by the speaker of the house in maine. It is a comprehensive set of policies for the state to support aging in place, everything from data wages for caregivers to transfixing them fixing transportation system, to supporting efforts like Village Movement. Are also naturally occurring retirement communities. The our new time Banking System systems we can take care of your neighbors in exchange for time for somebody else taking care of your loved ones far away from you. There are wonderful committeebased solutions that people are developing that we should be supporting in how we figure how we create and Public Policy framework, care grid, that really allows for beautiful things like the Capital Village of to grow. Good evening. My name is mary proctor and i was the president of the Capital Village board of directors for three years and deeply involved in the Capital Village. We have been around for seven years. We have 400 individual members who pay of the household 800 a month, or individuals 550 a month, or subsidized memberships of 100 or 200 a month. With that they gain access to vendors that will and regard the houses, fix their computers that are known to be high quality. They also gain access to about 300 volunteers who will give them rides to places they need to go and welcome also to look at their Computers Change light bulbs. There are 20 different affinity groups ranging from literary clubs to Cancer Support groups. And personally my husband and i probably met 200 people that lived on a hill that we didnt know that have become friends. We have a social worker who will help us if we end up in the hospital or have cancer or beginning to develop alzheimers, figure out what to do next. Gives us enormous peace of mind to be part of the village, and we are also trying to with the help of a member in the village to educate our members about what lies ahead. Think about hard choices down the road the time to plan is now. This is what we ran in september that had 100 people, and listen for seven hours to people, help them understand about endoflife care and opportunities to have a good death. Its a wonderful thing. It makes me feel happy about growing older, which is really kind of strange. [applause] [inaudible] excuse me, let me correct that. 800 a year or 550 a year, less than most gym memberships. Thank you so much. Sure, come on up right here the young woman. And while youre coming up i would just say the book at all that and very practical examples but it also has a whole section on Building Political economic and cultural power. It ends with resources for families so its intensely practical and a final section on ways to get involved. Here, come on now. We have about five to seven more minutes for questions and comments and then we will let aijen wrap it up. High, aijen. We met a little bit earlier. My name is allison. I was recently diagnosed with a chronic illness. I never expected to have my 50 something year old mom pushed me around in a wheelchair so i was wondering how sorry but i was wondering how you are addressing younger and younger people who are dealing with these chronic illnesses this parents are also dealing with a lot of the same things like arthritis et cetera . Thank you for asking that question. Well the way that we do address it is by saying that whats needed is a truly truly an authentically, a Multigenerational Movement. And we think that time is more right than ever before for a really strong and vibrant Multigenerational Movement for more care, more choices more support, more services for all of us. And when we think about the millennial generation and the boomer generation, those two generations are such powerful forces for change. Their size is one thing but then there are also just culture driving generations. If anyone was going to change the way the we age it would have been boomers. If anyone is going to redefine what it means to be young is millennials, right, and the other way around. So we think fostering and really nurturing multigenerational relationships and connections, you can actually create much more richness in our solutions all around. The focus of the book isnt specifically on young people with disabilities, but we understand there are huge implications in our care infrastructure for people of all ages with disabilities. And we know that needs to be front and center in the conversation about policy and other solutions for the future. So i hope that you will get involved and take this as a cue that your leadership is needed Going Forward. Thank you. We have time for perhaps one more question. Go ahead, the person in the suit. [laughter] come on up if you could. You have many you have a beautiful red tide. I am actually a geriatrician, and a father of a four year old and a one year old. And so you mentioned 20 of his population will be 65 or older. In 2020 come among children born in the u. S. There will be no racial or ethnic majority, sort of like my children. So as we care across generations what are the opportunities to define our society as we transition to these two amazing demographic transitions, to create potentially as we care across generations and intergenerational social contract . Thanks. You beat me want to take a stab at that, and also use the opportunity to say anything else you would like to say for folks to be able to get involved in this campaign. Sarita gupta. Sure. I will start the answer and