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Aging & Adult Services highlights IHSS pressures, conservatorship work and new clinical unit
Summary
Director Shereen McSpadden told the committee IHSS serves primarily seniors (about 74% of clients), IHSS providers began receiving FLSA protections in Feb 2016, Adult Protective Services sees many hoarding/environmental cases (~170 last year), and the department launched a clinical/quality nursing unit that has served 229 people so far.
Shereen McSpadden, director of the Department of Aging & Adult Services, presented the department’s divisions and current priorities. She said roughly 74 percent of in‑home supportive services (IHSS) clients are age 65 or older, about 40 percent live alone, and the program’s caregivers number about 19,000, many providing family care.
McSpadden noted the February 2016 implementation of Fair Labor Standards protections…
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