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Television companies, as a public service, and brought to you by your television provider. Lance robertson is the assistant secretary for aging in the department of health and Human Services and head of the administration for community leave living. Secretary, we all know that older adults are most at risk when it comes to coronavirus. Where have you focus your efforts as secretary for aging . Good morning, great to be with you, happy saturday lance within the department of health and Human Services, we are very proud to have the mission of caring for older adults and people with disabilities. Twoe know, those are our vulnerable and targeted populations of this virus so the work we do has never been more important. Is the programming we offer to help people stay safely at home in their community and that work has been compounded with virus impact. We are able to serve them in ....
Where have you focus your efforts as secretary for aging . Guest good morning, great to be with you, happy saturday morning. Hhs are one of the operating divisions and very proud to have the mission of caring for older adults and people with disabilities. Those are vulnerable and targeted populations with this virus so the work we do has never been more important. Is the programming we offer to help people stay safely at home in their community and that work has been compounded with virus impact. We are able to serve them in a variety of ways and we are honored. What theind People Administration for Community Living does. Guest we have three dozen programs, research institute, we offer a number of Community Support services that offer ways people can remain healthy and vital in their communities. For us, we a ....
You have the directors report in front of you. I am going to highlight our covid19 coronavirus response. Dr. Aragon will have more details. I wanted to acknowledge the Department Staff who have been working for over eight weeks in terms of our preparedness and our response in terms of dealing with the coronavirus. Last tuesday i am pleased to announce that mayor breed declared a state of emergency in the city, which was transformative in our ability to better prepare for the response. It allowed us to activate the department to be more focused on the response, coordinate better with other city departments. This is a shared responsibility in terms of our response doing that. We were able to also be eligible for potential federal responses within an emergency response. We were also able to position ourselves to better educate the community and the public about how best to prepare for coronavirus and when coronavirus does arrive in ....