Bill Text: HI HR91 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Native Hawaiians; Long-term Care

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-05 - (H) Referred to HAW/HLT, HED, FIN, referral sheet 39 [HR91 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HR91-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.R. NO.

91

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 


HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

 

URGING THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS, IN COLLABORATION WITH PAPA OLA LOKAHI AND THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN HEALTH, TO DEVELOP A STRATEGY TO ADDRESS THE LONG TERM HEALTHCARE NEEDS OF THE NATIVE HAWAIIAN POPULATION.

 

 

 


     WHEREAS, over the next 20 years, the number of Hawaii residents age 65 and older will nearly double from 184,000 to about 327,000 people - from about 14 percent today to more than 22 percent of the state's total population in 2030; and

 

     WHEREAS, the aging of Hawaii's population is especially sobering given the corresponding ten percent decline in the number of residents age 50 to 64, the age group from which the largest number of family caregivers is currently derived; and

 

     WHEREAS, family caregivers provide the bulk of long-term care services in Hawaii, including critical support services such as bathing and meal preparation in the home, and they delay or prevent the need for prohibitively expensive nursing home care; and

 

     WHEREAS, Hawaii's family caregivers provide unpaid care conservatively estimated at $1.45 billion per year - but their ability to continue providing this level of care in the years ahead is unsustainable in the absence of long-term care reform; and

 

     WHEREAS, the passage of Act 224 in 2008 established a Long Term Care Commission to research the resources necessary to meet Hawaii's long-term care public policy goals and to recommend options for system reform; and

 

     WHEREAS, widespread confusion about the cost of care and available service options make long-term care reform vital to the future of Hawaii because many people mistakenly think the government, through Medicare, pays more than it does, and because relatively few people have private insurance that covers the cost of care; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Long Term Care Commission is expected to present recommended reforms to the state legislature in 2012 in the areas of support service infrastructure, administration, workforce development, and financing; now, therefore,

 

                BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-fifth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2010, that this body urges the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, in collaboration with Papa Ola Lakahi and the University of Hawaii Department of Native Hawaiian Health, to develop a strategy to address the long term healthcare needs of the Native Hawaiian population; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this resolution be sent to the Governor, Director of Health, Director of Human Services; Chairperson and members of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Chairperson of the Long-Term Care Commission, Executive Director of Papa Ola Lokahi, Executive Director of Hui No Ke Ola Pono, Executive Director of Ahahui O Na Kauka, Dean of the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, and Dean of the University of Hawaii Department of Native Hawaiian Health.

 

 

 

 

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title: 

Native Hawaiians; Long-term Care

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