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		<title>St. Paul&#8217;s Highlighted on CNN</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent CNN news story highlighted the benefits of St. Paul&#8217;s Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly in San Diego. According to the story, &#8220;Help finally arrived for Hudson and her father when they discovered an all-inclusive elder care center that accepted Medicaid. St. Paul&#8217;s&#8230;functions like a day care for the elderly, providing medical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingservicesofcalifornia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872455&amp;post=480&amp;subd=agingservicesofcalifornia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Growing our Aging Services Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Paine, Policy Analyst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 16, the Obama Administration announced the 2010 and 2011 grant funding for the Section 202 Capital Advance program. Section 202 provides housing for very low-income seniors, age 62 or older who are at our below 50 percent of median income, however, many households that receive assistance earn less than 30 percent of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingservicesofcalifornia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872455&amp;post=477&amp;subd=agingservicesofcalifornia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Birth of an Idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Handy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In early 2010, Aging Services of California partnered with the California Association for Health Services at Home to sponsor a joint informational hearing at the California State Capitol. Originally, the hearing was intended to educate members of the legislature and their staff about innovative ways that technology could be used to help older adults age in place. Although we anticipated a fair amount of interest – our state is, after all, home to Silicon Valley – the attendance far surpassed our expectations.

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		<title>Recognizing Excellence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Handy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it’s easy to lose sight of all the great work the members of Aging Services of California do each and every day. Trying to figure out how to provide quality care for older adults in the face of an ever changing landscape, we understandably tend to focus on the challenges more than the successes. That’s why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingservicesofcalifornia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872455&amp;post=428&amp;subd=agingservicesofcalifornia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Handy to Lecture at Los Angeles Jewish Home&#8217;s 14th Annual Sarnat Symposium</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aging Services President &#38; CEO Joanne Handy, one of the leading experts on senior care advocacy, will be discussing all of the possible changes to senior care funding in a lecture at the 14th Annual Sarnat Symposium sponsored by the Los Angeles Jewish Home. In a lecture entitled Impact of Federal Healthcare Reform on Aging [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingservicesofcalifornia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872455&amp;post=415&amp;subd=agingservicesofcalifornia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enough is enough! Call-In to Congress this Week</title>
		<link>http://agingservicesofcalifornia.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/enough-is-enough-call-in-to-congress-this-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Dowdy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Larry Minnix, President &#38; CEO  of LeadingAge is urging all members to call their elected officials on Congress this week. Call today &#8211; the number is (855) 218-2109 Filed under: General Interest, Skilled Nursing Tagged: Capitol Hill, Congress, Skilled Nursing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingservicesofcalifornia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872455&amp;post=411&amp;subd=agingservicesofcalifornia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Asian Community Nursing Home 25th Annual Fundraiser a Success!</title>
		<link>http://agingservicesofcalifornia.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/asian-community-nursing-home-25th-annual-fundraiser-a-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Doute</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Posted on behalf of Jan Guiliano, Vice President of Education) Saturday evening I had the pleasure of attending the 25th Annual Fundraiser for Asian Community Nursing Home this past Saturday in Sacramento.   I&#8217;ve been to this event every year for the past 8 years and it continues to be a stellar event.  The food was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingservicesofcalifornia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872455&amp;post=403&amp;subd=agingservicesofcalifornia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating PEP Housing</title>
		<link>http://agingservicesofcalifornia.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/celebrating-pep-housing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carrie Paine, Policy Analyst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Joanne Handy and I attended PEP Housing’s ceremony celebrating their 2011 MetLife Foundation Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing for Casa Grande Senior Apartments in Petaluma.  The award is a high honor, received only by a handful of top affordable housing communities nationwide, bestowed upon Casa Grande due to their green features, universal design [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingservicesofcalifornia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872455&amp;post=397&amp;subd=agingservicesofcalifornia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aging Services Meets with CMS Office of Integration</title>
		<link>http://agingservicesofcalifornia.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/aging-services-meets-with-cms-office-of-integration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Handy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Interest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Christy and I had the chance to meet with Melanie Bella, Director of the CMS Office of Integration, when she was in California this week. CMS has funded California to plan the Dually Eligible Managed Care Pilot, in which persons eligible for both Medicare and Medi-Cal, will be enrolled in managed care plans. CMS [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingservicesofcalifornia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872455&amp;post=393&amp;subd=agingservicesofcalifornia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating 25 Years</title>
		<link>http://agingservicesofcalifornia.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/celebrating-25-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne Handy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Continuing Care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I visited Spring Lake Village in Santa Rosa, an Episcopal Senior Community, for their 25th Anniversary celebration. Close to 20 of the current 300+ residents have called Spring Lake home since the day it opened. Elected leaders, one after the other, spoke about the involvement of Spring Lakes’s residents in the Santa Rosa community, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=agingservicesofcalifornia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8872455&amp;post=389&amp;subd=agingservicesofcalifornia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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