Theorists put together. Those buses you see on the street initially pickup those seniors from their home i even operate housing facilities. Housing is not covered by the pace program but knowing how important housing is ease certainly San Francisco has been a leader is housing is so important to having people stay in higher home and community and getting care there soaps to going into institutions. Definitely some of the nontraditionally home delivered meals are part of the package and the second and final question is this is more for ann as the leader of this. Is what is comes to in my mind all the time is that those services are targeted for those people who are medical eligible but we have another group of servers r search and seizure in your community that are falling through the cracks who were probability a hundred dollars away from not obeying being eligible for medical were a aging population for a comprehensive city and yet we have no services or least e at least the Eligibili
Comment. Okay commissioner melara. Yes. A couple of places ilene im familiar with the case by it would be good for the commission that dont know about this its a great bottle to say in San Francisco. The pace stands for the all inclusive care for the elderly it started in San Francisco it was started over thirty years ago and it really is designed to focus on individuals who are certified to be eligible to be in a nursing home but want to stay in the community as long as possible it begin with medical services and primary Care Services as well as Longterm Services and community services. I think that where it is kind of a blend a managed care program but also a provider because those programs operate their own centers and clinics where people come during the day it get a spectrum of Services Including home care. It is a complete package of medical and Medicaid Services in addition to the services that the interdisciplinarian team and physical and occupational theorists put together. Th
And weve begun working on Something Like that were expanding this work because of the work in this area. Were doing the transition from hospital to home and there are i think takes we do Home Delivery meals and its a natural fit but it was great to see come out of the Community Partners as a recommendation. You can really look at some of the other recommendations and their pretty well clear. I wanted to highlight a little bit related to training for caregivers and also the recommendation related to helms and Dementia Research thats another initiative that the county is undertaken. Weve got a longterm Strategic Plan that relates to dementia in our county and other places have begun to use this for an example this data has found its way into the data this is a population that is growing rapidly. For us we see consistency with the recommendations here as weve seen in other plans as well. Backing up a minute youll see a list of some of the items. That determined to be crucial elements of a
Oversight Committee Just how we framed all the work but again, the Health Department and others were involved in all the work. Ill have ilene talk about the work and ill talk about some of the recommendations. You dont have a clock in the front so heres my watch to stay within the time thank you for the opportunity for the information for the plan. Im with the Citizens Health care and chair the group with another colleague. As ann mentioned it started with the initiative from the longterm care cooperate council but under the leadership of looking ahead with the ac a and the work in the state and how to better prop prepare for that with funding and support the coordinating group was created its the Long Term Services and support as ann mentioned were talking about older and young adults with disabilities and when we talk about Long Term Care integration were talking about institutional and Community Based services. In terms of the state initiative going on im going to spend time with th
Internet and have access by the homeless and poor and older and other margin in his people their requiring a library card for my access to my public computer where in the past in socalled express terminals loud anyone to go for a short 15 minutes without identification or having a library card and so on. Requiring the library card is like voter Identification Cards it solves in stated problem but disfranchises many. And does see on within an unequal impact as usual the change was made in an ata contrast situation no input from the public on this plan either solicited or received and what information thats been provide is unclear and incomplete. For many people the socalled increases in the max time will result in less Time Available and in much longer waits that hoping many people will give up thank you. Next speaker. Im torn between talking about alex john and is resolution he had what we talked about the cd they worked for the cd c and forced the minutes through the freedom of inform