Your unfuturity of government. The house ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the difficulties in caring for asian americans, including the lack of recently priced longterm care for Senior Citizens. This is 3. 5 hours. Should wood members at their desk please take their seat. Ways and Means Committee will come to order. Good morning, welcome. We are here to discuss a difficult issue that confronts nearly every family in our nation. That is how to care for our loved ones as they age. It is appropriate we work to address this matter in november which is all summers Awareness Month. And u. S. National Family Caregivers month. Its a deeply personal issue for many of us in the room and for those who have not personally struggled to ensure an older relative received the care they need, you most certainly know someone in your life who has. Navigating a fragmented and insufficient longterm care system can not only be confusing and emotionally taxing but also enormously expensive, indeed,
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Americans, including the lack of reasonably priced longterm care for Senior Citizens and their caregivers. A half hours. And [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [gavel bangs] would members and guests please take their seats . The ways and Means Committee will come to order. Good morning and welcome. We are here to discuss a difficult issue that confronts nearly every family and our nation, and that is how to care for our loved ones as they age. It is certainly appropriate that we work to address this matter in november, which is alzheimers Awareness Month and caregiversal family month. This is a deeply personal issue for many of us in the room, and for those who have not personally struggled to ensure an older relative receives the care they need, you most certainly know someone in your life who has. Navigating a fragmented and insufficient longterm care system can be not only confusing and emotionally taxing but also enormously expensive indeed, even unaffordable. Roun
Good afternoon. It is not often that i get a musical introduction so i appreciate that very much. I think we will have some fun with our panel when they come up but as i think you know, i believe this is the program, we are going to have a special guest first and a little intimate conversation between this special guest and me and i feel very privileged to be able to chat with them. An old and dear friend, senator john warner. Senator warner is approaching old age but you would never know it. We have been sitting in the back and talking about old times in this race and that race and all kinds of things. I was thinking about his career and that is absolutely incredible because you can go back as far as world war ii and korea. He was in both of those wars, and he did not have to, he did not have to do the second one if he did the first one, but he was always willing to jump in and participate. He did lots of things in between, but lets start with secretary of the navy and early 1970s. Th
Reasonably priced longterm care for Senior Citizens. This is three and half hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] wood members at their desk please take their seat. Ways and Means Committee will come to order. Good morning, welcome. We are here to discuss a difficult issue that confronts nearly every family in our nation. That is how to care for our loved ones as they age. It is appropriate we work to address this matter in november which is all summers Awareness Month. And u. S. National Family Caregivers month. Its a deeply personal issue for many of us in the room and for those who have not personally struggled to ensure an older relative received the care they need, you most certainly know someone in your life who has. Navigating a fragmented and insufficient longterm care system can not only be confusing and emotionally taxing but also enormously expensive, indeed, even unaffordable. Aroundtheclock inhome care costs about 180,000 a ye