What's New

• Upcoming CCoA Meetings
  • February 20-21, 2008 in San Diego, California
  • April 14-15, 2008 in San Jose, California
  • June 4-5, 2008 in Sacramento, California
  • August 6-7, 2008 in Orange County, California
  • October 15-16, 2008 in Redding, California
• Upcoming Events
  • Coordinated Leadership Conference
    April 15-17, 2008
    Wyndham Hotel, San Jose, California
    www.c4a.info, click on Events
  • California Mental Health Directors Older Adults System of Care Conference
    May 29-30, 2008
    Napa, California
    www.cimh.org/home
  • Respect-Ability Coalition
    March 7-8, 2008
    Los Angeles, California
    www.respectablitycoalition.org

• SCR 77 Introduced to Promote Fall Prevention Awareness

  The California Commission on Aging is pleased to announce the introduction of a legislative resolution promoting Fall Prevention Awareness in California. Senate Concurrent Resolution 77, authored by Senator Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach), establishes an annual Fall Prevention Week recognition in the state and urges all state and local agencies to incorporate fall prevention considerations in their planning documents affecting housing, transportation, parks and recreational facilities. Co-sponsored by the Fall Prevention Center of Excellence at the USC Andrus Gerontology Center and the California Commission on Aging, the resolution also urges state and local aging programs to incorporate fall prevention in their master plans, and recommends the development of standardized definitions and reporting methods to approve the information available on falls.

• CCoA Sponsors Cultural Diversity Resolution

  The California Commission on Aging is sponsoring a legislative resolution to urge greater cultural diversity in the delivery of aging programs and services in the state. Building on the CCoA’s 2007 success with legislation promoting the California White House Conference on Aging delegates’ priority of increased funding for senior housing, CCoA felt the WHCoA priority of increasing cultural competency was an important next step. The resolution, carried by Senator Alex Padilla (D-San Fernando Valley), calls on the State to plan now for a growing multi-cultural older adult population, provide more comprehensive delivery of culturally competent services to older adults, and urges the University of California and the California Health and Human Service Agency to incorporate cultural competency into all educational programs and systems devoted to serving older Californians.

• Long-Term Care Reform: Ten Years After Little Hoover

  The new Issue Brief, Long-Term Care Reform: Ten Years After Little Hoover, prepared by the California HealthCare Foundation, examines the progress made to improve the availability, access, and quality of long-term care in California since the 1996 release of the landmark Little Hoover Commission recommendations.