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In the city of L.A., the number of people aged 65 and older experiencing homelessness jumped more than 17% since last year, and more than 36% in two years, according to \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/homelessness-la-region-annual-count-2025\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>annual point-in-time counts\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the unhoused, older adults are estimated to be the \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/02/california-homeless-seniors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>fastest-growing\u003c/u>\u003c/a> population in California, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, organizations that serve older adults are pulling back on services because of budget shortfalls while bracing for the effects of the Trump administration’s cuts to Medicaid. That means people are being turned away from free food programs, senior centers and other supportive resources. And even before that, people who had housing were already struggling to keep it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were having to choose between their medications, or keeping their lights on, or having food on the table, or paying their rent,” said Yvonne Sun of Special Service for Groups SILVER, an L.A.-based nonprofit that provides resources to older adults in need by meeting them where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many local organizations for older adults pay for the services they provide through grants and fundraising. But they also receive federal funding, particularly through the Older Americans Act, which was designed to boost community social services for older people. Now, the services some older Angelenos rely on are at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050219/tsunami-waves-expected-to-last-into-afternoon-across-bay-area-with-no-damage-so-far\">Tsunami Waves Hit California Coast\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032295/how-to-prepare-for-a-tsunami-emergency-warning-california\">Tsunami waves\u003c/a> have been hitting the California coastline for much of Wednesday morning. The northern part of the state was hit especially hard. 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So far, the hospital has cleared all of those: 126 in January, 133 in February, 77 in March and 122 in April. Officials said they are on track to complete all May milestones, also.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are confident that Laguna Honda has delivered on our end of the settlement to date,” the hospital spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the action plan is completed, the hospital can apply for recertification, according to San Francisco Health Commission documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Unacceptable’ options\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the hospital has resumed voluntary discharges of residents who are found to no longer require the level of skilled nursing care that Laguna Honda provides.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tony Chicotel, staff attorney, California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform\"]‘I’m concerned that residents will be dumped inappropriately and this will green-light discharges of residents that Laguna Honda has wanted to rid themselves of.’[/pullquote]But the entire Bay Area is facing a drastic scarcity of affordable care and living accommodations for older adults, making it difficult to find new homes for discharged residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A total of 41 people have so far been identified as appropriate for discharge. However, only eight alternative placements have been identified for those residents, CEO Roland Pickens said during a recent Board of Supervisors hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In terms of clients who are allegedly no longer eligible for skilled nursing care, I am deeply concerned about transfers for them,” Laura Chiera, executive director of Legal Assistance to the Elderly, said at the supervisors hearing. “In the past some have been transferred to homeless shelters. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outbreak in 2023 surpassed the total number of COVID cases that occurred at Laguna Honda in 2020 (46) and 2021 (32), when \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-104291\">nursing homes across the country saw devastating impacts of the virus\u003c/a>, which disproportionately affects older adults. The highest number of overall cases at Laguna Honda occurred in 2022, which had a total of 246 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Throughout the pandemic, Laguna Honda has responded to many surges, and we will continue to respond as needed due to the contagious nature of the virus and continually emerging variants and the importance of residents hosting visitors and leaving campus for outings and appointments,” the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Path to recertification\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the hospital was found out of compliance on a number of safety issues across multiple regulatory surveys that were triggered after Laguna Honda self-reported two nonfatal overdoses that occurred on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, federal regulators stripped Laguna Honda from Medicare and Medi-Cal, subsidized health care plans that cover the vast majority of residents at the facility, most of whom have extremely low incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to sustain health care funding while Laguna Honda worked to address its deficiencies, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services required that the hospital craft and implement a plan to prepare for closure. That plan involved assessing and relocating as many patients as possible in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of 57 residents who were transferred or discharged during that process, 12 died shortly after their relocations. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921717/san-francisco-sues-feds-over-forced-closure-of-laguna-honda-hospital\">The city sued the federal government\u003c/a> in response, and the transfer process was paused temporarily as part of a settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939987/feds-grant-reprieve-on-laguna-honda-patient-transfers-until-may\">regulators agreed to extend the pause on transfers to May 19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simultaneously, Laguna Honda had until May 13 to implement an “Action Plan” that aims to address some of the areas where the hospital was found out of compliance, ranging from basic hygiene to medication storage and illicit substances on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its agreement, Laguna Honda must complete hundreds of items in the action plan to address deficiencies. So far, the hospital has cleared all of those: 126 in January, 133 in February, 77 in March and 122 in April. Officials said they are on track to complete all May milestones, also.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are confident that Laguna Honda has delivered on our end of the settlement to date,” the hospital spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the action plan is completed, the hospital can apply for recertification, according to San Francisco Health Commission documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Unacceptable’ options\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the hospital has resumed voluntary discharges of residents who are found to no longer require the level of skilled nursing care that Laguna Honda provides.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But the entire Bay Area is facing a drastic scarcity of affordable care and living accommodations for older adults, making it difficult to find new homes for discharged residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A total of 41 people have so far been identified as appropriate for discharge. However, only eight alternative placements have been identified for those residents, CEO Roland Pickens said during a recent Board of Supervisors hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In terms of clients who are allegedly no longer eligible for skilled nursing care, I am deeply concerned about transfers for them,” Laura Chiera, executive director of Legal Assistance to the Elderly, said at the supervisors hearing. “In the past some have been transferred to homeless shelters. That is completely unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-07/LHH%20Wkly%20Closure%20Patient%20Transfer%20DATA%20DASHBOARD%2007.18.22.pdf\">Three people were sent from Laguna Honda to homeless shelters during the 2022 transfers (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older care and disability advocates warn that many residents who are being discharged may still need some degree of assistance, and with a dearth of affordable assisted-living options in the Bay Area, some residents, they warn, are being discharged to inappropriate facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m concerned that residents will be dumped inappropriately and this will green-light discharges of residents that Laguna Honda has wanted to rid themselves of and their discharge plans will not be adequate,” said Tony Chicotel, staff attorney with California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940807/older-adults-are-now-the-fastest-growing-unhoused-population-in-california\">older adults are the fastest-growing segment of the unhoused population\u003c/a>. While California’s overall older adult population grew by 7% from 2017 to 2021, the number of people 55 and over seeking homelessness services increased 84%, according to the state’s Homeless Data Integration System.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want residents who don’t need to be (at Laguna Honda) to find appropriate housing,” said Chicotel. “But you don’t want to dump them to the first place that takes them or shows up available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Norma Johnson cracks a faint smile as she adjusts her stylish cat’s-eye glasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s at the cafeteria of \u003ca href=\"https://stmaryscenter.org/mission-history/\">St. Mary’s Center\u003c/a> in West Oakland, where older adults in interim housing or living on the streets can drop by for a free meal. But Johnson’s mind is elsewhere. Her treasured red leather rocking chair, along with most of her belongings, sits in a storage unit. She’s afraid if she doesn’t pay her $500 balance soon, the storage unit operator will auction everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I gotta pull a rabbit out of my hat,” Johnson, 65, said during a rainy January day. “I don’t want to lose the things I do have. I don’t have a house, and now I won’t have … ” She hangs her head before finishing that sentence.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sharon Cornu, executive director, St. Mary's Center\"]‘[I]t’s remarkable to think about — you’ve kept yourself employed and housed and above water this whole time period, and in what ought to be golden years, here you are out on the street.’[/pullquote]Unexpectedly, Johnson finds herself in the middle of a budding crisis: aging without a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California accounts for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/12/california-homeless-count-2/\">about a third of the nation’s unhoused people\u003c/a>, and among this population, older adults are estimated to be the fastest-growing group. One key indicator is the state’s tally of people accessing homelessness services. From 2017 to 2021, California’s overall older adult population grew by 7%, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/calich/hdis.html\">the number of people 55 and over who sought homelessness services increased 84%\u003c/a> — more than any other age group — according to the state’s Homeless Data Integration System.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comparison, the number of people accessing homelessness services across all ages increased 43% during this time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older adults who are unhoused include those who have been unhoused for a long time and are getting older. But they also include those who are part of a growing trend, research shows: \u003ca href=\"https://generations.asaging.org/homelessness-older-adults-poverty-health\">people experiencing homelessness for the first time after age 50\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those at increased risk of losing shelter tend to be older adults who live alone and on fixed incomes, with little to no savings. A main contributor, experts say, is that as California rents soar, older adults’ income streams — including Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income — \u003ca href=\"https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/2022/04/05/senior-advocate-older-adults-pushed-out-housing/9472635002/\">have not kept up\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2019/10/black-people-disproportionately-homeless-in-california/\">Black Californians have long been overrepresented in the unhoused population\u003c/a> — representing about 6% of the state’s population but close to 30% of those accessing homelessness services, state data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many of us, there’s a picture in our mind connected to substance abuse or mental health issues. And for maybe a quarter of people who are currently unhoused, that is a cause. But most people becoming homeless today do so for economic reasons,” said Sharon Cornu, executive director at St. Mary’s Center, a nonprofit group that operates several services for older adults, including transitional housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As someone in this age group, I can tell you, it’s remarkable to think about — you’ve kept yourself employed and housed and above water this whole time period, and in what ought to be golden years, here you are out on the street,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Respite at St. Mary’s Center\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just last summer, Johnson was living in a three-bedroom house she shared with a housemate and working at a COVID-19 testing site. But her situation changed suddenly. She had to stop working to undergo surgery for an old back injury. Then her housemate of almost three years moved out, leaving Johnson on the hook for the full $2,500 rent that she could not afford on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she lost her home, Johnson was referred to St. Mary’s Center, where she currently shares a trailer with five other people. Everyone who stays at St. Mary’s transitional housing units is 55 or older and many have moved from the streets to shelters to living in cars or staying with relatives. Here, they have access to a case manager. The goal is to link them to any health and social services they may need and help them find permanent affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940813\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An older Black woman with graying hair and a white shirt and glasses looks at the camera while seated on a white couch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norma Johnson at the Closer to Home St. Mary’s Center transitional housing in West Oakland on Jan. 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stories like Johnson’s are common among people who have been through St. Mary’s Center — barely making ends meet, an injury or stint of bad health having forced them to leave jobs sooner than they had hoped. In some cases, the death of a loved one, family conflicts or abusive relationships left people without a place to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like Elbert Lee Jones Jr., spent decades on the streets. Born in Germany to a military family, he and his family moved to Oakland when he was 5 years old. As a young adult, he worked in fast-food restaurants, laundromats and convenience stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had jobs, had a life, until cocaine came knocking on the door. It came knocking on the door and really messed up a whole lot,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong and mostly healthy, he managed on the streets for a long time. Then about three years ago, he woke up in his tent to foot pain so unbearable he could barely stand. An ambulance took him to the closest emergency room, where doctors told him he had gangrene on his toes; they would have to amputate all of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said, ‘If you hadn’t come in when you did, you’da been dead,’” Jones said. “That was the darkest part of my life right there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After some time healing at a nursing home, he was back on the streets. In a wheelchair and about to turn 60, he found his situation getting more complicated. So when the clinical director at St. Mary’s Center approached Jones under a freeway overpass last year and offered him a place to stay, he accepted. He was reluctant at first, he said. It had been a long time since he’d trusted anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the streets, 50 is the new 70\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Research has shown that living on the streets — eating and sleeping poorly, being exposed to the elements, not getting proper medical care and losing medication during encampment sweeps — will \u003ca href=\"https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/news/older-homeless-people-are-great-risk-dying\">prematurely age, sicken and kill people\u003c/a>. That is why when speaking about the unhoused population, advocates and experts often refer to “seniors” as anyone 50 and above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time unhoused people are in their 50s and early 60s, they look much more like other people in their 70s and 80s, said Dr. Margot Kushel, director of UC San Francisco’s Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything is shifted back about 20 years,” Kushel said. “The health problems that we normally associate with aging — vision problems, hearing problems, cognitive impairments, difficulty bathing, difficulty walking — all of those things start much younger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940812\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940812\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white trailer with blue door and windows, and a little yard and planting garden outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Closer to Home St. Mary’s Center transitional housing in West Oakland on Jan. 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their situation could also trigger anxiety, depression and substance use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, the state launched incentives for Medi-Cal providers, who serve patients with lower incomes, to start and grow \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/12/homeless-health-care/\">street medicine programs\u003c/a>. Historically, most of these programs have been funded by philanthropic groups and foundations. And perhaps now more than ever, these programs play a crucial role, but in limited numbers they can only do so much for this medically high-needs population. Routine care and timely diagnosis are more difficult when people are moving from one encampment or shelter to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And simply put, “There is no medicine as powerful as housing,” Kushel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers for one UCSF study published last summer followed unhoused people 50 and older over eight years in Oakland and found they were \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2795475?guestAccessKey=7ac6269d-6dbd-4288-a405-b1ecca6e082e&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=082922\">3.5 times more likely to die early\u003c/a> compared to other older people in the city. In the study, the median age of death was 64.6 years, compared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm#:~:text=That%20decline%20%E2%80%93%2077.0%20to%2076.1,life%20expectancy%20since%201921%2D1923.\">76.1 years for all Americans\u003c/a>. The main causes of death for the unhoused were heart disease, cancer and drug overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health needs of older adults can be complex. And most shelters are not equipped to serve a geriatric population. Programs that serve older adults specifically, like the one at St. Mary’s Center, are few and far between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, shelters are being overwhelmed by unhoused people who need more than these facilities can provide. For example, ideally, shelters would have a nurse on-site, but that could cost about $90,000 a year per nurse, which most facilities wouldn’t be able to afford, said Sara Mirhadi, chief programs officer at \u003ca href=\"https://poverellohouse.org/\">Poverello House\u003c/a>, which provides food, shelter and social services to unhoused people in downtown Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past several years, her shelter’s population has gotten older and their disabilities have increased. A number of those who come in regularly are in wheelchairs and need help using the bathroom. When you add conditions such as dementia and mental health issues, caring for this population becomes even more challenging, Mirhadi said.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sara Mirhadi, chief programs officer, Poverello House\"]‘I think we need to really take a hard look at what we’re doing for our elderly population, because they should not be in a shelter.’[/pullquote]“At this point, I feel like our shelters are slowly becoming de facto nursing facilities,” she said. “I’ve had to ask staff to do a lot of things that they normally wouldn’t do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fresno-Madera region has seen one of the biggest jumps in homelessness among the 55-and-older population, increasing 216% from 2017 to 2021, state data shows. Coincidentally or not, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/09/california-housing-podcasat-fresno-market/\">rents and home prices in the Fresno area\u003c/a> have skyrocketed in recent years. Other areas that saw more than a two-fold increase in homelessness among this age group include the Yuba-Sutter area, and Yolo, San Francisco, Merced and Alameda counties. (Homelessness data is tracked by regional agencies whose territories can include a single city or several counties.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to really take a hard look at what we’re doing for our elderly population, because they should not be in a shelter,” Mirhadi added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Making a dent in homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In January 2021, Gov. Gavin Newsom released \u003ca href=\"https://mpa.aging.ca.gov/\">California’s Master Plan for Aging\u003c/a>, a 10-year blueprint on how to better prepare the state for a graying population — a quarter of the state’s residents will be 60 or older by 2030. The rollout of this plan also comes at a time when an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.aging.ca.gov/download.ashx?lE0rcNUV0zZe1bBmXluFyg%3D%3D\">2 million older adults are considered economically insecure\u003c/a>, struggling to afford rising rents and health care costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The No. 1 priority in that master plan is increasing affordable housing options for older adults, allowing them to age in place. The plan lays out goals and initiatives that legislators and the administration can pursue over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once homeless, older individuals face really unique barriers that make it extremely difficult for them to get housed again, so putting the emphasis on homeless prevention and making that a front-and-center strategy of dealing with older adult homelessness is something that we are seeing more attention paid to,” said Patti Prunhuber, director of housing advocacy at Justice in Aging, a legal advocacy group focused on poverty among older adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940811\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940811\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An older Black woman cooks food in a trailer kitchen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norma Johnson cooks in the communal kitchen at the Closer to Home St. Mary’s Center transitional housing in West Oakland on Jan. 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One proposal Prunhuber and other advocates are pushing for this year is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB37\">Senate Bill 37\u003c/a>, carried by Sen. Anna Caballero, a Merced Democrat, that would create a state-run housing subsidy program for older people and those with disabilities at highest risk of becoming unhoused. \u003ca href=\"https://justiceinaging.org/new-california-bill-would-prevent-homelessness-among-older-adults-and-people-with-disabilities/\">A similar bill\u003c/a> died in the Legislature last year after it failed to receive funding in the state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state subsidy program would supplement federal assistance programs — such as Section 8 vouchers — that help \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BrooksLaSureCMS/status/1623761054059593730?s=20&t=2AzEgXJGjyy7ihHKAZ7q-Q\">about 10.2 million Americans\u003c/a> with “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/housing/the-housing-choice-voucher-program\">extremely low incomes\u003c/a>” afford rent. With demand outpacing supply, only about 4 out of every 10 people eligible for a federal rental subsidy receive it, said Sharon Rapport, California policy director for the Corporation for Supportive Housing, a nonprofit organization that advocates for homelessness prevention and a sponsor of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of a state program would be to help people obtain federal rental vouchers, but in the meantime provide state-funded help. This way, more older adults will be able to stay in their current homes, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state should be in this business, too, because the feds alone can’t solve homelessness and the state alone can’t solve homelessness,” Rapport said. “But they can make a big dent in it and eventually solve it if they’re both putting in resources toward programs that work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of housing navigators at St. Mary’s Center, Jones has spent the last eight months filling out applications for subsidized housing. If everything goes as planned, he expects to have his own studio apartment in Oakland by the end of this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’ll be a far cry from his 20-plus years on the streets, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has a vision for his place: “I want it to be homey, warm. A place you could be comfortable in,” he said. “I’m going to have pictures up on the walls. I’ve got a green thumb. I’m going to have plants. It’s gonna be nice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said she, too, dreams of having a place to call her own again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to have to worry about people leaving me behind with the whole amount of the rent,” she said. “I don’t want to do that anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Unexpectedly, Johnson finds herself in the middle of a budding crisis: aging without a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California accounts for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/12/california-homeless-count-2/\">about a third of the nation’s unhoused people\u003c/a>, and among this population, older adults are estimated to be the fastest-growing group. One key indicator is the state’s tally of people accessing homelessness services. From 2017 to 2021, California’s overall older adult population grew by 7%, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/calich/hdis.html\">the number of people 55 and over who sought homelessness services increased 84%\u003c/a> — more than any other age group — according to the state’s Homeless Data Integration System.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comparison, the number of people accessing homelessness services across all ages increased 43% during this time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older adults who are unhoused include those who have been unhoused for a long time and are getting older. But they also include those who are part of a growing trend, research shows: \u003ca href=\"https://generations.asaging.org/homelessness-older-adults-poverty-health\">people experiencing homelessness for the first time after age 50\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those at increased risk of losing shelter tend to be older adults who live alone and on fixed incomes, with little to no savings. A main contributor, experts say, is that as California rents soar, older adults’ income streams — including Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income — \u003ca href=\"https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/2022/04/05/senior-advocate-older-adults-pushed-out-housing/9472635002/\">have not kept up\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2019/10/black-people-disproportionately-homeless-in-california/\">Black Californians have long been overrepresented in the unhoused population\u003c/a> — representing about 6% of the state’s population but close to 30% of those accessing homelessness services, state data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many of us, there’s a picture in our mind connected to substance abuse or mental health issues. And for maybe a quarter of people who are currently unhoused, that is a cause. But most people becoming homeless today do so for economic reasons,” said Sharon Cornu, executive director at St. Mary’s Center, a nonprofit group that operates several services for older adults, including transitional housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As someone in this age group, I can tell you, it’s remarkable to think about — you’ve kept yourself employed and housed and above water this whole time period, and in what ought to be golden years, here you are out on the street,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Respite at St. Mary’s Center\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just last summer, Johnson was living in a three-bedroom house she shared with a housemate and working at a COVID-19 testing site. But her situation changed suddenly. She had to stop working to undergo surgery for an old back injury. Then her housemate of almost three years moved out, leaving Johnson on the hook for the full $2,500 rent that she could not afford on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she lost her home, Johnson was referred to St. Mary’s Center, where she currently shares a trailer with five other people. Everyone who stays at St. Mary’s transitional housing units is 55 or older and many have moved from the streets to shelters to living in cars or staying with relatives. Here, they have access to a case manager. The goal is to link them to any health and social services they may need and help them find permanent affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940813\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An older Black woman with graying hair and a white shirt and glasses looks at the camera while seated on a white couch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-07-CM-copy.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norma Johnson at the Closer to Home St. Mary’s Center transitional housing in West Oakland on Jan. 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stories like Johnson’s are common among people who have been through St. Mary’s Center — barely making ends meet, an injury or stint of bad health having forced them to leave jobs sooner than they had hoped. In some cases, the death of a loved one, family conflicts or abusive relationships left people without a place to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like Elbert Lee Jones Jr., spent decades on the streets. Born in Germany to a military family, he and his family moved to Oakland when he was 5 years old. As a young adult, he worked in fast-food restaurants, laundromats and convenience stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had jobs, had a life, until cocaine came knocking on the door. It came knocking on the door and really messed up a whole lot,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong and mostly healthy, he managed on the streets for a long time. Then about three years ago, he woke up in his tent to foot pain so unbearable he could barely stand. An ambulance took him to the closest emergency room, where doctors told him he had gangrene on his toes; they would have to amputate all of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said, ‘If you hadn’t come in when you did, you’da been dead,’” Jones said. “That was the darkest part of my life right there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After some time healing at a nursing home, he was back on the streets. In a wheelchair and about to turn 60, he found his situation getting more complicated. So when the clinical director at St. Mary’s Center approached Jones under a freeway overpass last year and offered him a place to stay, he accepted. He was reluctant at first, he said. It had been a long time since he’d trusted anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the streets, 50 is the new 70\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Research has shown that living on the streets — eating and sleeping poorly, being exposed to the elements, not getting proper medical care and losing medication during encampment sweeps — will \u003ca href=\"https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/news/older-homeless-people-are-great-risk-dying\">prematurely age, sicken and kill people\u003c/a>. That is why when speaking about the unhoused population, advocates and experts often refer to “seniors” as anyone 50 and above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time unhoused people are in their 50s and early 60s, they look much more like other people in their 70s and 80s, said Dr. Margot Kushel, director of UC San Francisco’s Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything is shifted back about 20 years,” Kushel said. “The health problems that we normally associate with aging — vision problems, hearing problems, cognitive impairments, difficulty bathing, difficulty walking — all of those things start much younger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940812\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940812\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white trailer with blue door and windows, and a little yard and planting garden outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-05-CM-1-copy.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Closer to Home St. Mary’s Center transitional housing in West Oakland on Jan. 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their situation could also trigger anxiety, depression and substance use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, the state launched incentives for Medi-Cal providers, who serve patients with lower incomes, to start and grow \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/12/homeless-health-care/\">street medicine programs\u003c/a>. Historically, most of these programs have been funded by philanthropic groups and foundations. And perhaps now more than ever, these programs play a crucial role, but in limited numbers they can only do so much for this medically high-needs population. Routine care and timely diagnosis are more difficult when people are moving from one encampment or shelter to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And simply put, “There is no medicine as powerful as housing,” Kushel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers for one UCSF study published last summer followed unhoused people 50 and older over eight years in Oakland and found they were \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2795475?guestAccessKey=7ac6269d-6dbd-4288-a405-b1ecca6e082e&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=082922\">3.5 times more likely to die early\u003c/a> compared to other older people in the city. In the study, the median age of death was 64.6 years, compared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm#:~:text=That%20decline%20%E2%80%93%2077.0%20to%2076.1,life%20expectancy%20since%201921%2D1923.\">76.1 years for all Americans\u003c/a>. The main causes of death for the unhoused were heart disease, cancer and drug overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health needs of older adults can be complex. And most shelters are not equipped to serve a geriatric population. Programs that serve older adults specifically, like the one at St. Mary’s Center, are few and far between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, shelters are being overwhelmed by unhoused people who need more than these facilities can provide. For example, ideally, shelters would have a nurse on-site, but that could cost about $90,000 a year per nurse, which most facilities wouldn’t be able to afford, said Sara Mirhadi, chief programs officer at \u003ca href=\"https://poverellohouse.org/\">Poverello House\u003c/a>, which provides food, shelter and social services to unhoused people in downtown Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past several years, her shelter’s population has gotten older and their disabilities have increased. A number of those who come in regularly are in wheelchairs and need help using the bathroom. When you add conditions such as dementia and mental health issues, caring for this population becomes even more challenging, Mirhadi said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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(Homelessness data is tracked by regional agencies whose territories can include a single city or several counties.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to really take a hard look at what we’re doing for our elderly population, because they should not be in a shelter,” Mirhadi added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Making a dent in homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In January 2021, Gov. Gavin Newsom released \u003ca href=\"https://mpa.aging.ca.gov/\">California’s Master Plan for Aging\u003c/a>, a 10-year blueprint on how to better prepare the state for a graying population — a quarter of the state’s residents will be 60 or older by 2030. The rollout of this plan also comes at a time when an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.aging.ca.gov/download.ashx?lE0rcNUV0zZe1bBmXluFyg%3D%3D\">2 million older adults are considered economically insecure\u003c/a>, struggling to afford rising rents and health care costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The No. 1 priority in that master plan is increasing affordable housing options for older adults, allowing them to age in place. The plan lays out goals and initiatives that legislators and the administration can pursue over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once homeless, older individuals face really unique barriers that make it extremely difficult for them to get housed again, so putting the emphasis on homeless prevention and making that a front-and-center strategy of dealing with older adult homelessness is something that we are seeing more attention paid to,” said Patti Prunhuber, director of housing advocacy at Justice in Aging, a legal advocacy group focused on poverty among older adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940811\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940811\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An older Black woman cooks food in a trailer kitchen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/011223-ST-MARYS-CENTER-MHN-08-CM-1-copy.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norma Johnson cooks in the communal kitchen at the Closer to Home St. Mary’s Center transitional housing in West Oakland on Jan. 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One proposal Prunhuber and other advocates are pushing for this year is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB37\">Senate Bill 37\u003c/a>, carried by Sen. Anna Caballero, a Merced Democrat, that would create a state-run housing subsidy program for older people and those with disabilities at highest risk of becoming unhoused. \u003ca href=\"https://justiceinaging.org/new-california-bill-would-prevent-homelessness-among-older-adults-and-people-with-disabilities/\">A similar bill\u003c/a> died in the Legislature last year after it failed to receive funding in the state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state subsidy program would supplement federal assistance programs — such as Section 8 vouchers — that help \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BrooksLaSureCMS/status/1623761054059593730?s=20&t=2AzEgXJGjyy7ihHKAZ7q-Q\">about 10.2 million Americans\u003c/a> with “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/housing/the-housing-choice-voucher-program\">extremely low incomes\u003c/a>” afford rent. With demand outpacing supply, only about 4 out of every 10 people eligible for a federal rental subsidy receive it, said Sharon Rapport, California policy director for the Corporation for Supportive Housing, a nonprofit organization that advocates for homelessness prevention and a sponsor of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of a state program would be to help people obtain federal rental vouchers, but in the meantime provide state-funded help. This way, more older adults will be able to stay in their current homes, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state should be in this business, too, because the feds alone can’t solve homelessness and the state alone can’t solve homelessness,” Rapport said. “But they can make a big dent in it and eventually solve it if they’re both putting in resources toward programs that work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of housing navigators at St. Mary’s Center, Jones has spent the last eight months filling out applications for subsidized housing. If everything goes as planned, he expects to have his own studio apartment in Oakland by the end of this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’ll be a far cry from his 20-plus years on the streets, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has a vision for his place: “I want it to be homey, warm. A place you could be comfortable in,” he said. “I’m going to have pictures up on the walls. I’ve got a green thumb. I’m going to have plants. It’s gonna be nice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said she, too, dreams of having a place to call her own again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to have to worry about people leaving me behind with the whole amount of the rent,” she said. “I don’t want to do that anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California high school seniors were in 10th grade when the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools and sent them home to learn. This year, many seniors are either struggling to earn enough credits to graduate or, because of a new state law, graduating with fewer credits and requirements than classes before them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB104\">Assembly Bill 104\u003c/a>, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in July, allowed parents to request that D’s and F’s earned in the 2020-21 school year be changed to pass or no-pass grades. It also gave last year’s juniors and seniors the option to graduate with \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=51225.3.&nodeTreePath=2.3.4.3.3&lawCode=EDC\">the state’s minimum requirements\u003c/a>, made up of 13 courses totaling about 130 credits. Students also can take a fifth year of high school if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these flexibilities, some high school students are still lagging academically, and school districts and their teachers are working hard to help them catch up. Popular tactics include instituting block schedules that allow students to take more classes and add tutoring sessions into their school days, as well as meeting with students to set up graduation plans and expanding after-school tutoring programs.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alix Gallagher, director of strategic partnerships, Policy Analysis for California Education\"]‘Some of the students the hardest hit were the ones already struggling.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to know how many seniors are failing classes this school year, as first-term grades aren’t yet available, but it’s no secret students are struggling, said Alix Gallagher, director of strategic partnerships for Policy Analysis for California Education, \u003ca href=\"https://edpolicyinca.org/\">or PACE,\u003c/a> an independent research center at Stanford University that focuses on education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hearing it everywhere,” she said. “Last year was their junior year, and they spent it online.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from \u003ca href=\"https://coredistricts.org/\">Core Districts\u003c/a>, a collaboration of California school districts working to improve student achievement, shows a 10% increase in the number of ninth graders at 15 schools across multiple districts with at least one D or F in college preparation courses in the second semester of 2020-21, compared with the same semester of the 2018-19 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a small leap to say it isn’t just ninth graders [who are failing more classes],” Gallagher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she said, students who stopped showing up for school weren’t included in those numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the students the hardest hit were the ones already struggling,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Students need academic and social-emotional support\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Educators contacted by EdSource overwhelmingly said that social-emotional issues are the primary reason students are struggling academically. Schools have added therapists, counselors and social workers to help students to deal with emotional issues, often related to the pandemic, so they can get on track academically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatiana Torres, 17, a senior at Heritage High School in Brentwood, started attending high school her sophomore year after three years in a home-hospital school program because of an injury. She was just settling into the high school campus — making friends, changing classes, dreaming about school dances — when the pandemic hit, and she found herself at home again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though she was accustomed to studying independently, online distance learning was a struggle, Torres said. “It was a difficult time academically,” she said. “There was so much emotion going on. It was really difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But returning to school was also hard. Along with trying to get reacquainted with old friends, adapting to the return to school and being part of a class again, seniors had to make sure they had enough credits to graduate, Torres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know in my class, especially in the beginning of the year, people couldn’t pay attention,” Torres said. “Some people just couldn’t do it. Some people couldn’t focus. If you haven’t been doing it in the last one and a half years, getting back into it is very difficult.”[aside postID=\"mindshift_58693,news_11888038,mindshift_58872\" label=\"Related Posts\"]David Cohen, an English and writing teacher at Palo Alto High School with certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, said students are still trying to get acclimated to classrooms again, as well as to academic rhythms and expectations. The problems in his classes seem to be overall work habits and drive, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anecdotally, there has not been a huge increase in the number [of students] that actually fail, but an increase in those who come close and need extra support to stay on solid ground,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many teachers are trying to provide more structure for students by guiding them through their work, but they also are offering more flexibility when students have trouble completing work on time, Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>School districts are getting creative to keep students on track\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Unified, the state’s largest district, with 450,000 students, and Nevada Joint Union High School District in Grass Valley, with 2,686 students, were two of the districts that adopted a block schedule to help students catch up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A block schedule allows for longer class periods and fewer classes each day. 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The problems in his classes seem to be overall work habits and drive, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anecdotally, there has not been a huge increase in the number [of students] that actually fail, but an increase in those who come close and need extra support to stay on solid ground,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many teachers are trying to provide more structure for students by guiding them through their work, but they also are offering more flexibility when students have trouble completing work on time, Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>School districts are getting creative to keep students on track\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Unified, the state’s largest district, with 450,000 students, and Nevada Joint Union High School District in Grass Valley, with 2,686 students, were two of the districts that adopted a block schedule to help students catch up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A block schedule allows for longer class periods and fewer classes each day. 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"content": "\u003cp>Laura, 76, has not seen a doctor for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former farmworker, who did not want her last name used because of her immigration status, said she is losing her eyesight and her feet are often swollen and in pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A grandmother, Laura also suffers from headaches and shortness of breath, months after she became seriously ill with COVID-19 during the winter surge. Through it all, she has relied on home remedies and not sought medical care because she lacks health insurance, she said, in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have any money. And at my age, there’s no work,” said Laura, who picked watermelon, zucchini, pumpkin and other crops for more than 20 years in fields in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Laura may soon get access to the medical services she desperately needs, at little or no cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is on the verge of a historic step to offer public health insurance to low-income undocumented older adults — a population that has been particularly vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic but left out of federal assistance programs and other safety nets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders are expected to announce an expansion to the Medi-Cal program in the coming days as part of a final deal on the state budget, according to advocates and legislative aides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent negotiations in Sacramento have centered on the lower age limit for those who will be newly eligible: 50 and older, as lawmakers have previously proposed; 60 and older, as Newsom offered; or somewhere in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are as certain as we can be that there will be something that comes into the final budget,” said Sarah Dar, who directs health and public benefits policy at the California Immigrant Policy Center. “And it’s really just a matter of ‘What’s the age they land on?‘”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Luz Gallegos, director of TODEC, a legal center and immigrant justice organization\"]‘California continues to step up and defend all Californians, especially those who are most vulnerable, who don’t have any access to safety nets, but who contribute to our state economy, have been paying taxes… and have seen nothing in return.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, then-state Sen. Ricardo Lara introduced the first (unsuccessful) \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1005\">bill\u003c/a> to make undocumented immigrants eligible for public health coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, California has enrolled undocumented children in full-scope Medi-Cal, offering free or low-cost preventative care, doctor visits, prescriptions, dental care, vision care and other services. Last year, the state became the first in the nation to offer health coverage to undocumented young adults through age 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more than 1.3 million undocumented Californians are projected to lack health insurance next year, remaining the largest uninsured group in the state, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/undocumented-californians-projected-to-remain-the-largest-group-of-uninsured-in-the-state-in-2022/\">report\u003c/a> by the UC Berkeley Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estimates vary, but depending on the final age cutoff that Newsom and legislative leaders decide for this year’s budget, roughly 80,000 to more than 200,000 undocumented Californians could gain access to Medi-Cal, including many who have worked essential jobs that are key to the state’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant and health advocates who have pushed California for years to extend health coverage to undocumented immigrants savored the realization that finally, older adults will most likely be eligible for coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At last, justice does prevail. We are in a historic moment as Californians,” said Luz Gallegos, the executive director of TODEC, a legal center and immigrant justice organization in the Inland Empire and Coachella Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California continues to step up and defend all Californians, especially those who are most vulnerable, who don’t have any access to safety nets, but who contribute to our state economy, have been paying taxes … and have seen nothing in return,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879325\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11879325\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Gallegos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1242\" height=\"806\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Gallegos.jpg 1242w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Gallegos-800x519.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Gallegos-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Gallegos-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luz Gallegos works on COVID-19 vaccine outreach for farmworkers in Thermal, Calif. this spring. \u003ccite>(Courtesy TODEC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The governor’s budget \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2021-22/pdf/Revised/BudgetSummary/HealthandHumanServices.pdf\">revision\u003c/a> from May includes nearly $860 million in annual state funds to expand Medi-Cal to low-income undocumented adults age 60 and older, with some of that funding available next year. The Legislature’s \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/Floor%20Report%20of%20the%202021-22%20Budget%20-%20%28June%2011%2C%202021%20Version%29.pdf\">proposal\u003c/a> dedicates $1.3 billion in annual funds to cover undocumented adults age 50 and older once the program is fully established.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='undocumented-immigrants']Gallegos, who was born in the U.S. to farmworker immigrant parents, said this likely win is personal for her. In recent years, her undocumented uncle died from cancer, she said, after he delayed seeking medical care because he was uninsured. During the pandemic, farmworkers she knows died from COVID-19 while several others became ill with the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We honor their lives by continuing the struggle so we don’t see no more lives taken away from our communities,” said Gallegos, her voice breaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, low-income undocumented immigrants who are 26 and older are eligible for limited Medi-Cal, which only covers health care emergencies or prenatal care if they are pregnant. Undocumented immigrants are excluded from the Affordable Care Act, and cannot purchase coverage through Covered California, the state’s ACA health exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they are not insured by an employer or able to purchase a private plan, they must generally rely on county health programs, which vary greatly throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Gov. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814885/as-pandemic-batters-californias-economy-plan-to-insure-undocumented-seniors-in-doubt\">proposed\u003c/a> offering full-scope Medi-Cal to undocumented seniors age 65 and older. But the plan didn’t go through, as the state projected a severe economic downturn and tax losses in the billions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the financial picture for California is starkly different this year, with the state logging an eye-popping budget surplus of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874125/californias-historic-budget-surplus-is-it-76-billion-or-38-billion\">$76 billion\u003c/a>. In addition, the pandemic highlighted how “interconnected” public health really is, with all of us having to think about whether people around us wore masks, stood far enough apart, or were vaccinated, said Dar, with the California Immigrant Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so to give health care access to this community would mean a healthier and stronger state for all Californians,” said Dar. “Increased productivity, better health outcomes, better public health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some opponents have argued that funds to provide health coverage to undocumented people would be better spent on other needs, such as helping struggling U.S. citizens afford their own health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two in three Californians support the idea of providing health coverage to undocumented immigrants, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-march-2021.pdf\">recent survey\u003c/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California. 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"content": "\u003cp>An effort to fix problems with the oversight of California’s nursing homes has stalled, sparking fears that the bill is doomed — and prompting elder-care advocates to warn that even a delay jeopardizes residents’ safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m incredibly frustrated,” said Democratic Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi of Los Angeles, author of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Assembly Bill 1502\u003c/a>. “The pandemic has clearly exposed the horrible conditions of so many of our nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are dying as we wait. ... We cannot sit around with a broken state oversight system while our most vulnerable residents continue to live in these nursing homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, D-Los Angeles\"]'People are dying as we wait. ... We cannot sit around with a broken state oversight system while our most vulnerable residents continue to live in these nursing homes.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-oversight-nursing-homes/\">CalMatters investigation\u003c/a> spotlighted an opaque licensing process for California’s nursing homes, plagued by indecision, delays and misleading information. For instance, the investigation found that the California Department of Public Health has allowed the state’s largest nursing home owner, Shlomo Rechnitz, to operate facilities for years through a web of companies while license applications for his facilities languish in “pending” status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That story “blew the lid off of my thinking,” said Assemblymember Jim Wood, a Santa Rosa Democrat who chairs the Assembly Health Committee — and helps decide which health legislation in that house will live or die. “I didn’t realize to the extent that it was happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, his committee declined to hear the bill, which would forbid the use of management agreements to “circumvent state licensure requirements” and would require owners and operators to get approval from CDPH before acquiring, operating or managing a nursing home. Instead, the committee turned Muratsuchi’s proposal into a two-year bill that won’t be heard before next January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates had expected the bill to face opposition from the nursing home industry, which has deep ties to influential players at the Capitol. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cahf.org/Resources/Media-Center/Press-Releases/CAHF-Names-New-CEO-President\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CEO of the nursing home industry group\u003c/a>, Craig Cornett, was a top aide to two former state Senate leaders and four former Assembly speakers before joining the California Association of Health Facilities in 2017. He’s known for having masterful knowledge of the state government bureaucracy and is included on \u003ca href=\"https://capitolweekly.net/craig-cornett-capitol-weeklys-top-100/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a list\u003c/a> of the most influential people around the Capitol. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornett’s industry group employs \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Firms/Detail.aspx?id=1147785&session=2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a lobbying firm\u003c/a> that counts Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon’s cousin, \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Lobbyists/Detail.aspx?id=1398339&session=2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Edward Rendon\u003c/a>, as one of its lobbyists. Edward Rendon is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.capitoladvocacy.com/edward-rendon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a partner\u003c/a> at a consulting firm called Spiker Rendon that was paid $45,000 last year by Cornett's organization, according to its \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2549822&amendid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lobbying reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Association of Health Facilities has donated more than $1.6 million to California campaigns in the past decade, according to filings with the \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California secretary of state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Rockport Healthcare Services, the administrative services company for many nursing homes, employs the lobbying firm of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/12/jason-kinney-gavin-newsom-california-governor-transition/\">Jason Kinney\u003c/a>, whose \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2020/11/newsom-dinner-california-medical-lobby-french-laundry-pandemic/\">French Laundry birthday bash last November\u003c/a> was attended by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration also hasn’t taken a position on the bill, although that is not unusual at this stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood insists that delaying Muratsuchi’s bill will not lead to its death, saying he is deeply committed to solving the state’s nursing home licensing problems “once and for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of California Health and Human Services Agency, which oversees CDPH, declined to answer questions for this story or for CalMatters’ investigation into the department’s licensing practices. Newsom also declined to be interviewed for either story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/latest/post/20210412/Solorzano-Renew-Newsom-Contribution-Nursing-Home-LAist-Investigation\">governor recently agreed to donate $10,000 to charity\u003c/a> after an \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/special-reports/nursing-homes-renew.php\">investigation by LAist\u003c/a> showed that he had received a political contribution in that amount from ReNew Health Consulting Services, which is affiliated with a troubled nursing home chain. LAist, affiliated with KPCC in Los Angeles, and CalMatters are part of a collaboration of California’s nonprofit newsrooms to investigate the state’s supervision of nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood’s communications director, Cathy Mudge, told CalMatters this week that the Newsom administration had not pressured his committee to stall the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"nursing-homes\"]Wood said he is so committed to fixing these issues that he plans to take the uncharacteristic step of putting his name on it as a joint author next year. He has long been an ally of nursing home oversight, calling for \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20447178-ca-state-auditor-2018-report-skilled-nursing-facilities-absent-effective-oversight-substandard-quality-of-care-has-continued-2017-109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a May 2018 audit\u003c/a> that said licensing lapses by CDPH increased the probability that residents might not receive adequate care. He has also authored previous bills to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">protect nursing home residents\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">improve transparency\u003c/a> in the licensing process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want you to walk away with the impression that I’m stalling this, because I’m not,” Wood said. “I just want it to be right and I want it to be meaningful and I want to use this process to change the way we put this industry together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the bill is heard in January, Wood said he believes staff and outside consultants will need to invest a huge amount of time to gather data and communicate with various state agencies about complex issues. He also wants to work to get CDPH and the Newsom administration on board as “active partners.” He said he worries about the department’s bandwidth during the pandemic, and said his committee has also been inundated with 165 health-related bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s licensing and oversight problem “really falls on the backs of CDPH for the most part,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope is that, in the interim, as we move forward and do our work on this, that we get feedback from CDPH, that we get cooperation from them on how we can make this process work better,” he said. “I hope we’re not going to see a situation where they circle the wagons and lock the doors and really don’t work with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more time,” he said. “I hate that, quite frankly. I really do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top officials at the department, including its director, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/Meet-the-Director.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Tomás Aragón\u003c/a>, have refused CalMatters’ requests to be interviewed about the licensing situation. In an email Thursday, an unnamed spokesperson said the department does not comment on proposed legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson told CalMatters the department had initiated a regulatory package related to the change-of-ownership licensing process, but that the effort has been “placed on a temporary hold due to staff redirections associated with COVID response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of the bill say it is strong as it is, and that it can help resolve urgent problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the problem’s complicated,” said Tony Chicotel, a staff attorney for \u003ca href=\"http://www.canhr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform\u003c/a>, which sponsored Muratsuchi’s bill. “People are running facilities without licenses. That shouldn’t happen for years and years and years. It shouldn’t happen for another year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should all agree that’s not good and work out something to attend to it now. I think we owe that to the residents who have suffered so horribly this year,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicotel said he worries, from past experience, that the bill’s chance of becoming law “was diminished when it was postponed.” He also believes it buys CDPH more time to not take action on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re pretty comfortable doing nothing, but now they have an excuse,” he said. “You blink and another year’s gone by.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tony Chicotel, staff attorney with California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform\"]'People are running facilities without licenses. That shouldn’t happen for years and years and years. It shouldn’t happen for another year.'[/pullquote]Chicotel said past bills to improve nursing home oversight have often been vetoed or significantly watered down. This includes a 2019 bill authored by Democratic Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo of Los Angeles, that initially \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1695\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proposed to streamline ownership reviews\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicotel said his organization initially supported the bill, but vigorously opposed it after it was amended to allow new owners to receive provisional licenses by default if CDPH missed a deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It went from a bill that could have been great to a bill that would have been devastatingly bad,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill ended up passing with proposed alterations to the change-of-ownership licensing process removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicotel said something similar happened in 2015 with a measure that would have \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB927\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prevented nursing home operators\u003c/a> from acquiring more facilities under certain circumstances. Chicotel’s group initially sponsored the bill, but ended up opposing it after amendments were made. So did its author, Democratic Assemblymember Kevin McCarty of Sacramento, who pulled the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another hurdle to changing the law: opposition from the nursing home industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a previous interview with CalMatters, Deborah Pacyna, a spokesperson for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cahf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California Association of Health Facilities\u003c/a>, which represents most of the state’s 1,100 nursing homes, described the state’s change-of-ownership licensing process as “broken.” The organization had not yet officially weighed in on Muratsuchi’s bill, but she said it probably would have opposed the bill unless it was amended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said a recent California Court of Appeal \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20616280-canhr-v-aragon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ruling\u003c/a> determined that state approval of unlicensed interim nursing home managers to operate nursing homes does not violate state or federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]“It just shows to us that if the trial lawyers can’t win in court, they’re going to go to the Legislature,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She commended Wood’s decision to wait a year before attempting to alter the state’s licensing system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really appreciate the reasoned approach, looking at all this from a big picture standpoint, instead of just striking out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood anticipates pushback on licensing reform from “players in this industry who don’t want the scrutiny and don’t want their business models upset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill is about government oversight and fixing our own house,” he said. “But I guarantee you that this will be a challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters political reporter Laurel Rosenhall contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Now, some of these families are grappling with what to do next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11844521,science_1965009,science_1964008\" label=\"Care Facilities and COVID-19\"]The flight to Oakland took 12 grueling hours. Thirty minutes after landing, he was at his mother’s bedside. He found her covered in bedsores, dehydrated and malnourished. Her doctors warned that her kidneys weren’t working properly, and she would need immediate hospitalization to stay alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnny rode with her in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. When she went in alone, he wasn’t sure he’d ever see his mother again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She could have very easily died all by herself,” he said. “I felt a lot of guilt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That guilt Johnny felt stems from the fact that he was responsible for putting his mother in the facility in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before April 2019, Johnny’s parents had lived together in their Oakland apartment for decades. But they’re both in their 80s, and his mother has advanced dementia. By early last year, she could no longer walk, and it was clear to Johnny that his father couldn’t care for her on his own. So Johnny suggested moving her to a home, but his dad resisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He wasn’t physically able to provide the care for her,” Johnny said. “Emotionally, he wasn’t ready to be separated from her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnny insisted. He found a memory care home nearby designed for dementia patients. His mom would be living an active, social life and getting round-the-clock care. Johnny felt confident in his choice. Still, the day they dropped her off, his father was distraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was heartbreaking,” Johnny said. “To him, it was as if my mom was dying.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnny’s debate with his father isn’t unique. For decades, families with aging parents have faced a similar decision: to keep an aging parent home or move them out for better care. Today, as the pandemic rages in senior care homes across the state, the stakes of that debate are higher than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the onset of the pandemic, assisted living facilities have become virus hot spots — with nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/nursing-homes/\">450 outbreaks statewide\u003c/a> so far, according to the California Department of Social Services. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.assistedlivingcare.com/california/#:~:text=In%20California%2C%20there%20are%20120%2C000,to%20www.cdc.gov.\">100,000\u003c/a> aging Californians currently live in care homes. For their families, an already tough decision could turn deadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s another option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a tiny downtown Oakland office, Leah Bloom runs Homewatch CareGivers of Oakland, which connects Bay Area seniors to caregivers who come directly to their homes. Bloom has run the agency with her husband, Ben, since 2014. Homewatch is one of thousands of licensed home care agencies in the state, according to the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/community-care/home-care-services\">Home Care Services Bureau\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" citation=\"Leah Bloom\"]‘It’s really dangerous to be an elder yourself, caring for elders.’[/pullquote]Bloom said she sees aging couples like Johnny’s parents all the time. And she says being a caregiver when you’re 80 just doesn’t work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really dangerous to be an elder yourself, caring for elders,” Bloom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to Bloom, “assisted living” doesn’t require a facility. Her caregivers help with everything from moving around and eating, to driving and companionship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once, Bloom says, home care was a niche industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to be in the business of convincing people that there was a need for home care,” Bloom said. “Now the industry is really booming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before COVID-19, there weren’t enough home care aids to meet the increase in demand, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://bhw.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/bhw/nchwa/projections/directcareworkersfactsheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">analysis\u003c/a> from the U.S. Bureau of Health Workforce. And, though the state has not yet collected data on the home care industry this year, \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/how-coronavirus-could-forever-change-home-health-care-leaving-vulnerable-older-adults-without-care-and-overburdening-caregivers-137220\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long-term care researchers have warned\u003c/a> that the coronavirus will only accelerate this demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, like assisted living, home care is expensive. Most of Bloom’s clients have long-term care insurance, or can afford to pay out of pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Home care is still not considered a medical necessity,” Bloom said. “Even though there is study after study that shows that after a hospital discharge, you’re much less likely to return to the hospital again if you have the proper home care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the hospital, Johnny’s mother was one of the lucky ones: She began to recover. As she regained strength, Johnny and his father felt they could never send her back to the assisted living facility. Then, a social worker told Johnny about Homewatch CareGiver. Today, caregivers from the agency work with his mother around the clock, in the apartment she shares with his dad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To come back from where she was, the day that I got back, I never would have guessed,” Johnny said. “It’s nothing short of a blessing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, now that Johnny’s father doesn’t have to worry about taking care of his wife’s medical needs around the clock, Johnny says he can instead focus on the moments he has left with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been him reconnecting with her,” Johnny said. “It’s kind of like getting reacquainted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnny’s still waiting to fly back to Europe to see his own family again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p2\">On the rare occasion she leaves her room, Diane Evans uses a walker to gingerly navigate San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Most days, the 74-year-old wears a multicolored head wrap, extra large T-shirt and plaid pajama pants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Deprived of classes and shared meals at the senior center she calls home, she is alone most of the time, beset by numerous health problems and severe clinical depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">She is, in fact, a prime candidate during this pandemic to be crushed by loneliness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]‘You get to be 85 years old, you know you got a foot on the banana peel.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Yet, she is making it through OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">“If adverse situations beat you down, there wouldn’t be an African American in this country,” said Evans, who is Black. “You do what you have to do to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Recent research reveals older populations are less consumed by pandemic depression than those who are younger. According to a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-amp0000690.pdf\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">study\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, some seniors have even expanded their social support network during the lockdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“They’ve been finding ways to adapt and cope,” said Ashwin Kotwal, a UCSF geriatrician. “They’re finding creative ways to interact with family members through Zoom, taking dance classes online or joining virtual book clubs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Kotwal led a \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jgs.16865\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">study\u003c/span>\u003c/a> that tracked 150 older adults in the Bay Area over six months, beginning in April. Measures of loneliness peaked in the first few months of the outbreak, but decreased as time passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847725\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_5840-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_5840-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_5840-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_5840-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_5840-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_5840-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_5840-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_5840-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_5840-1832x1374.jpeg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_5840-1376x1032.jpeg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_5840-1044x783.jpeg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_5840-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/IMG_5840-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diane Evans steps outside for a brief stroll through the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lesley McClurg/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Evans credits a lot of her positive attitude to technology. Grinning, she reached for a purple cellphone and said, “I learned how to text!’ She now Zooms regularly with her daughter in Chicago. When she’s not chatting online, she streams the radio or Hulu Live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">She keeps solvent by buying very little, subsisting on about $1,000 a month from Social Security. The room she lives in is federally subsidized. Medicare covers doctor bills, and Meals on Wheels delivers food. Her biggest expense is laundry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">On gloomy days inside her room, she reminds herself, “This too shall pass.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">She’s eager for the virus to retreat enough for her to join protests for racial equality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“I want to be alive at the end of this,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Connection Is Key\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Evans’ story is not uncommon. At the Curry Senior Center, where she lives, older adults who connect virtually with friends and family are doing well, says Angela Di Martino, the facility’s wellness program manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technology, though, is not a panacea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“Video calls cannot replace personal contact,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Di Martino is among the experts who fear virtual interaction won’t offer a meaningful substitute for live conversation in the long run. Zoom fatigue is a real thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Unsurprisingly, those seniors who are still engaging with people in person are faring the best. UCSF geriatrician Louise Aronson says she’s been hearing from older people who actually feel less isolated now than prior to the pandemic, because they live in multigenerational households, with family members who no longer rush off to work or school. 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UCSF geriatrician Louise Aronson says she’s been hearing from older people who actually feel less isolated now than prior to the pandemic, because they live in multigenerational households, with family members who no longer rush off to work or school. Some are finding new purpose by helping their grandkids with distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1 in 4 Lonely\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">To be sure, not all seniors\u003cb> \u003c/b>are riding out the storm smoothly. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a disaster situation like a wildfire or an earthquake, communication between you and those you care about is key. But what if the one device you rely on to communicate — your phone — isn’t working?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cellphone service can be reduced or vanish altogether during emergencies, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/11/california-wildfires-reps-blast-cell-companies-unconscionable-move-to-block-backup-power-rules/\">cell towers go down\u003c/a> amid power shutoffs, or when overhead fiber lines on utility poles are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11622310/fire-victims-frustrated-by-lack-of-wireless-connectivity\">damaged by fire itself\u003c/a>. Service interruptions like these stop people from being able to get in touch with family and friends to confirm their safety, and prevent them from receiving the very emergency alerts they’re relying on for evacuation updates. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834901/fire-evacuation-what-actually-happens-and-how-can-you-plan#2\">If you’re not signed up for emergency alerts, do it right now here.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you’re caught in a disaster situation like a wildfire and your cellphone loses coverage, what can you do? There are a few steps you can take to maintain contact with others, and to keep loved ones updated on your safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Be prepared to lose calls or texts (or both)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The best form of preparation for an emergency situation is being able to adapt, says Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore. You might be able to make a call, but not be able to send or receive texts, or the other way around. Or you might have to completely rely on finding Wi-Fi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because of \u003cem>how\u003c/em> cellphone coverage fails during a disaster like a wildfire. When lines are themselves damaged by fire, calls won’t work, but texts — which place less demand on cell towers — might.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#save\">Save our tip graphic to your phone’s camera roll\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But if there’s an outage because of a public safety power shutoff, smaller cell towers might not get power from the system’s battery backup, meaning cellphone data clogs up and texts can’t get through. This, Gore says, is what happened to a huge number of Sonoma County residents during the 2017 wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you find yourself in this kind of situation, Gore advises that you just “keep trying.” Confusingly, your phone’s screen might \u003cem>look\u003c/em> like you have good coverage, but cellphone data being overwhelmed will still prevent you from using your phone like usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A road closure sign in Felton during the CZU Lightning Complex fire on Aug. 20, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Know how to find Wi-Fi in an emergency\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Places like large stores (think Walmart) or coffee shops, like Starbucks, might provide Wi-Fi, and you often will be able to pick up the signal outside in the parking lot. Your internet provider might also offer free Wi-Fi hotspots in your region in a disaster situation, something Gore says is becoming more common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, you can almost certainly find Wi-Fi at one of your county’s temporary evacuation points. It’s worth noting that during the height of the COVID pandemic, counties were frequently focused on providing smaller temporary evacuation points and on offering hotel vouchers to evacuees instead of the usual large shelters with cots you might expect — to maintain social distancing and avoid the risk of virus transmission indoors in big groups — so you might still potentially encounter a smaller evacuation center than you might expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, as well as offering Wi-Fi, a temporary evacuation point is also “a place to park your car, to take a deep breath and communicate with people, because your mind will be spinning a thousand times a minute,” Gore says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Change your cellphone settings to allow voice calls over Wi-Fi\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When your cellular data isn’t available, you can set your phone to make and receive calls using Wi-Fi, when you have access to it. This is a setting you’ll almost certainly have to enable on your phone — it’s not a default.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to allow voice calls over Wi-Fi:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>On iPhone: Settings > Cellular > Wi-Fi Calling or Apps > Phone Wi-Fi Calling\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On Android: Each model may be different, but you’ll still find this somewhere under Settings. On Samsung phones look under Connections, and on Google phones look under Calls.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Note: You might have to actually call your cellphone provider, like Verizon or AT&T, to ask them to activate Wi-Fi calling on your behalf. This is why it’s best to make sure that your phone has this capability in advance, as calling your provider is \u003cem>not\u003c/em> something you’re going to want to have to do during an actual disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Use your voicemail greeting to update friends and family\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Change your voicemail welcome recording when you get cell or Wi-Fi service, and use it to let anyone who calls know your safety status. This means that even when their calls can’t get through to you, your friends and family can hear the information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to change your voicemail message:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>On iPhone: Apps > Phone > Voicemail > Greeting.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On Android: Each model may vary, but look for Phone Settings to find the way to change your voicemail message.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11840215\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How can you communicate during a disaster if your phone stops working? \u003ccite>(Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>You can use social media to make calls …\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If your cellphone service fails, Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs and WhatsApp will allow you to make calls over WiFi, if you’ve enabled that in your settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look for the little phone icon on your apps — but be aware that video calls might require a stronger connection than you’re able to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>… and to let people know you’re OK\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Send a post on X, post an update to Facebook or Instagram (your feed or Story) or Tik Tok, or use the “status” feature on WhatsApp or Slack to let people know how you’re doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have time and space in the update, include details like your current location and when friends and family can expect to hear from you again, which could allow you to go without cell service or Wi-Fi for a little while, if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Make sure disaster plans include your extended networks — especially for seniors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Make sure that your disaster plans include your extended networks beyond just your immediate family, recommends Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore. That includes \u003cem>not\u003c/em> assuming that the people in your life are as informed (or as tech-savvy) as you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check in with senior relatives in particular, and make sure that they know they might not be able to rely on their internet or phones during a disaster — and help them as much as you can to have a backup plan for communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gore also recommends encouraging people in your life to watch and listen to \u003cem>local\u003c/em> news to get information and updates about issues like wildfires, shutoffs and possible evacuation orders that, say, cable news might not be giving them. Some folks can also assume that the emergency broadcast system will cut into whatever they’re watching with any key updates, which Gore says isn’t necessarily the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if you don’t \u003cem>have\u003c/em> a smartphone in the first place?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you don’t have a smartphone, wireless emergency alerts (such as evacuation orders or Amber Alerts) will still automatically sound on your cellphone — but they rely on your phone having cell service to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These alerts also go to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather radios, which operate on emergency cranks or battery power. NOAA weather radios broadcast official warnings, watches, forecasts and other hazard information consistently. \u003ca href=\"https://www.weatherusa.net/radio\">Find out how to tune into a local weather radio here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/register/\">sign up to get Nixle alerts\u003c/a>, which can come via texts, voice messages and emails — maximizing your chances of being able to receive at least one of these methods. If you have a friend, family member or neighbor who does have a smartphone, set up a system so they can send you important information.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Consider having an out-of-state text contact\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Capt. Erica Arteseros of San Francisco’s Fire Department, who served as program coordinator for the city’s Neighborhood Emergency Response Team, advises you to explicitly identify a person who lives outside California to be your “check-in contact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it’s a friend or a family member, Arteseros says you should send a text message to that out-of-state person with the time and your location, even if you don’t have wireless service — because that text message \u003cem>will\u003c/em> eventually get to that person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phone calls will fail when cell towers are down for either you or your contact, Arteseros explains. Text messages, however, operate on a relay system between emergency beacons on cell towers. This means a text is more likely to reach someone than a phone call or a voice message.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Make sure you don’t run out of power\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When prepping your \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833686/what-to-pack-in-your-emergency-bag-with-covid-19-in-mind\">emergency “go bag” kit (instructions here)\u003c/a>, make sure you include a cellphone charger (if possible, more than one) and a portable rechargeable cellphone battery, if you have one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Placing your phone in airplane mode — and making sure Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity are also disabled — will help battery life. You can periodically turn your phone on and off to check for signal while also conserving battery life. Turning down your screen’s brightness will also help save your battery, as will putting your device in low power mode (even if your battery still has significant charge).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your phone may end up being a crucial lifeline between you and loved ones, and you want to make sure you can keep using it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"save\">\u003c/a>Finally: Save these reminders to your phone’s camera roll …\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>… so you can view these tips (in English and Spanish) without cellphone coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11840242\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11840243\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-espanol2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-espanol2.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-espanol2-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-espanol2-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/how-to-communicate-espanol2-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you’re caught in a disaster situation like a wildfire and your cellphone loses coverage, what can you do? There are a few steps you can take to maintain contact with others, and to keep loved ones updated on your safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Be prepared to lose calls or texts (or both)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The best form of preparation for an emergency situation is being able to adapt, says Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore. You might be able to make a call, but not be able to send or receive texts, or the other way around. Or you might have to completely rely on finding Wi-Fi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because of \u003cem>how\u003c/em> cellphone coverage fails during a disaster like a wildfire. When lines are themselves damaged by fire, calls won’t work, but texts — which place less demand on cell towers — might.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#save\">Save our tip graphic to your phone’s camera roll\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But if there’s an outage because of a public safety power shutoff, smaller cell towers might not get power from the system’s battery backup, meaning cellphone data clogs up and texts can’t get through. This, Gore says, is what happened to a huge number of Sonoma County residents during the 2017 wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you find yourself in this kind of situation, Gore advises that you just “keep trying.” Confusingly, your phone’s screen might \u003cem>look\u003c/em> like you have good coverage, but cellphone data being overwhelmed will still prevent you from using your phone like usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A road closure sign in Felton during the CZU Lightning Complex fire on Aug. 20, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Know how to find Wi-Fi in an emergency\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Places like large stores (think Walmart) or coffee shops, like Starbucks, might provide Wi-Fi, and you often will be able to pick up the signal outside in the parking lot. Your internet provider might also offer free Wi-Fi hotspots in your region in a disaster situation, something Gore says is becoming more common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, you can almost certainly find Wi-Fi at one of your county’s temporary evacuation points. It’s worth noting that during the height of the COVID pandemic, counties were frequently focused on providing smaller temporary evacuation points and on offering hotel vouchers to evacuees instead of the usual large shelters with cots you might expect — to maintain social distancing and avoid the risk of virus transmission indoors in big groups — so you might still potentially encounter a smaller evacuation center than you might expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, as well as offering Wi-Fi, a temporary evacuation point is also “a place to park your car, to take a deep breath and communicate with people, because your mind will be spinning a thousand times a minute,” Gore says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Change your cellphone settings to allow voice calls over Wi-Fi\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When your cellular data isn’t available, you can set your phone to make and receive calls using Wi-Fi, when you have access to it. This is a setting you’ll almost certainly have to enable on your phone — it’s not a default.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to allow voice calls over Wi-Fi:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>On iPhone: Settings > Cellular > Wi-Fi Calling or Apps > Phone Wi-Fi Calling\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On Android: Each model may be different, but you’ll still find this somewhere under Settings. On Samsung phones look under Connections, and on Google phones look under Calls.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Note: You might have to actually call your cellphone provider, like Verizon or AT&T, to ask them to activate Wi-Fi calling on your behalf. This is why it’s best to make sure that your phone has this capability in advance, as calling your provider is \u003cem>not\u003c/em> something you’re going to want to have to do during an actual disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Use your voicemail greeting to update friends and family\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Change your voicemail welcome recording when you get cell or Wi-Fi service, and use it to let anyone who calls know your safety status. This means that even when their calls can’t get through to you, your friends and family can hear the information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to change your voicemail message:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>On iPhone: Apps > Phone > Voicemail > Greeting.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On Android: Each model may vary, but look for Phone Settings to find the way to change your voicemail message.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11840215\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3755749-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How can you communicate during a disaster if your phone stops working? \u003ccite>(Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>You can use social media to make calls …\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If your cellphone service fails, Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs and WhatsApp will allow you to make calls over WiFi, if you’ve enabled that in your settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look for the little phone icon on your apps — but be aware that video calls might require a stronger connection than you’re able to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>… and to let people know you’re OK\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Send a post on X, post an update to Facebook or Instagram (your feed or Story) or Tik Tok, or use the “status” feature on WhatsApp or Slack to let people know how you’re doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have time and space in the update, include details like your current location and when friends and family can expect to hear from you again, which could allow you to go without cell service or Wi-Fi for a little while, if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Make sure disaster plans include your extended networks — especially for seniors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Make sure that your disaster plans include your extended networks beyond just your immediate family, recommends Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore. That includes \u003cem>not\u003c/em> assuming that the people in your life are as informed (or as tech-savvy) as you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check in with senior relatives in particular, and make sure that they know they might not be able to rely on their internet or phones during a disaster — and help them as much as you can to have a backup plan for communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gore also recommends encouraging people in your life to watch and listen to \u003cem>local\u003c/em> news to get information and updates about issues like wildfires, shutoffs and possible evacuation orders that, say, cable news might not be giving them. 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NOAA weather radios broadcast official warnings, watches, forecasts and other hazard information consistently. \u003ca href=\"https://www.weatherusa.net/radio\">Find out how to tune into a local weather radio here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/register/\">sign up to get Nixle alerts\u003c/a>, which can come via texts, voice messages and emails — maximizing your chances of being able to receive at least one of these methods. If you have a friend, family member or neighbor who does have a smartphone, set up a system so they can send you important information.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Consider having an out-of-state text contact\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Capt. 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