New Developments

• Proposed DRA Amendments to be heard in Assembly Health Committee
  
  (posted May 7, 2008)
• New CANHR FactSheet:
  Veterans Affairs Aid & Attendance Benefits
• CANHR Staff Attorney
  Receives Prestigious Sentinel Award
  
  (posted April 10, 2008)
• Press Release: Billion Dollar Funding Increase Fails
  to Improve Nursing Home Care in California
  
  (posted April 8, 2008)
• SF Weekly reports: Nursing Home Lobbyist Quits
  After He Predicts SEIU Powerplay
  
  (posted April 2, 2008)
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Upcoming Events...

• If you would like to invite CANHR to a support group meeting, resource fair, or other event in your community, please complete a speaker request form online.

  Note: Due to limited number of staff, CANHR may not be able to accommodate all requests outside of the Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles Area.

• May 7: CANHR Senior Staff Attorney Prescott Cole will be speaking about elder financial abuse at the Mother Lode Elder Abuse Awareness Conference.
  The conference will take place at the Jackson Rancheria & Conference Center, 12222 New York Ranch Road, in Jackson, CA, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
• May 20: Long Term Care Advocate Deborah Espínola will be representing CANHR at the 26th Annual Senior Information & Health Fair for the city of Richmond.
  The event will take place at the Richmond Recreation Complex, 3230 MacDonald Avenue, Richmond, CA, and is for all West County residents. Information tables will be open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• June 18: Staff Attorney Tony Chicotel will be speaking to the Greenridge Senior Care Family Council about the use of restraints in Skilled Nursing Facilities.
  The event will take place at the Greenridge Senior Care facility, 2150 Pyramid Drive, Richmond, CA, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
• CANHR Outreach Activities