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                                    THIRD READING


          Bill No:  SCR 85
          Author:   Hall (D), et al.
          Introduced:8/17/15  
          Vote:     21 

           SUBJECT:   Nursing Home Caregiver Professionals and Long Term  
                     Care Provider Month


          SOURCE:    Author


          DIGEST:          This resolution recognizes the month of November 2015  
          as the Nursing Home Caregiver Professionals and Long Term Care  
          Provider Month.
          ANALYSIS:   This resolution makes the following legislative  
          findings:


          1)There are 136,000 skilled nursing home professionals in  
            California, of which 47,000 workers deliver quality  
            institutional care to our most vulnerable residents, including  
            seniors, adults, and children with disabilities in California.


          2)The number of seniors requiring long term care will  
            drastically increase as the number of Californians who are 65  
            years of age or older is estimated to grow to nine million  
            people in the next 15 years.


          3)Nursing home caregivers provide essential services to  
            residents that maintain the highest practicable physical,  
            mental, and psychosocial wellbeing of the people they serve.









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          4)The work of nursing home caregivers often goes unnoticed, as  
            do the financial struggles caregivers and their families  
            experience in order to provide this lifeline service to those  
            in need.  


          5)Providing long-term care workers with a living wage will  
            generate the demand for goods and services in the local  
            economy, stimulate increased employment opportunities, and  
            drive workers and their families one step closer to getting  
            out of poverty.


          This resolution recognizes November 2015 as Nursing Home  
          Caregiver Professionals and Long Term Care Provider Month, and  
          acknowledges the essential work and contributions nursing home  
          direct care professionals bring to counties and cities of the  
          state and support their efforts to lift themselves and their  
          communities out of poverty.


          FISCAL EFFECT:   Appropriation:    No          Fiscal  
          Com.:NoLocal:    No


          SUPPORT:   (Verified8/19/15)


          None received


          OPPOSITION:   (Verified8/19/15)


          None received














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          Prepared by:Melissa Ward / SFA / (916) 651-1520
          8/19/15 21:33:54


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