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July 15, 2013 at 09:09 AM
The Federal Commission on Long-Term Care has very kindly sent me a notice about the committee’s second public hearing, which is set to take place in Washington at 1:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday.
Just the fact that the folks on the commission thought to send me a notice is probably a sign that they’re trying. They mean very well.
It looks as if the commission will hear from an interesting panel of witnesses and the diversity of long-term care (LTC) demand and meeting LTC needs.
The witnesses include speakers from great groups, such as the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities, the Technology Assistance Collaborative, the LeadingAge Center for Applied Research and Independent Living Systems, in addition to think tanks like Mathematica, the AARP Public Policy Institute and the Altarum Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness.
But, as far as I can tell, the commission doesn’t even have a working Facebook page, let alone a web page on the Senate.gov system or the ability to stream audio or video of the hearings live on the Web.
The participants at the first meeting seemed to agree mainly on the principle that doing anything useful would be hard.
I hope the participants can drink some energy drinks and gain a sense of things the country could do to plan, if Democrats and Republicans could call a truce in the area of elder care issues.
