Tag: honolulu

  • Keauhou Shelter in Moiliili

    Waikiki Health opened Keauhou, an emergency shelter for homeless couples and individuals where an estimated 40 people have already been housed from the homeless tent community living in the Moiliili Neighborhood Park.  Keauhou Shelter will use the Housing First model, which places clients in housing as quickly as possible, followed by client-centered “wrap-around” services.  For more information, visit www.waikikihealth.org.

  • Kupuna Caucus

    Kupuna Caucus

    Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Kupuna Caregivers rally at the State Capitol

    The Kupuna Caucus convenes on the first Friday of every month (unless there is a scheduling conflict). The meetings are open to the public. See below for the upcoming schedule:

    Friday, March 61:45RM 016
    Friday, April 31:45RM 016
    Friday, May 11:45RM 016
    Friday, June 52:00TBD
    Friday, July 102:00TBD
    Friday, August 72:00TBD
    Friday, September 42:00TBD
    Friday, October 22:00TBD
    Friday, November 62:00TBD
    Friday, December 42:00TBD

    2020 Kupuna Caucus Bills

    HB1865/SB2339: Requires the Department of Health to establish an Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia training program for care workers whose work involves extensive contact with participants or residents.

    HB1866/SB2335: Appropriates funds for the healthy aging partnership program to further the program’s role in improving the health and well-being of Hawaii’s kupuna.

    HB1867/SB2342: Amends the total amount of hours per week an individual must be employed to be a qualified caregiver under the kupuna caregivers program from thirty to twenty. Appropriates funds for the proper implementation of the kupuna caregivers program.

    HB1868/SB2338: Lowers the age a person can be exempt from jury duty from eighty years of age or older to seventy-five years of age or older.

    HB1869/SB2341: Amends the definitions of “certificate of disability” and “person with a disability” to allow a person with a disability that does not limit or impair the ability to walk and needs special accommodations to enter and exit their vehicle to be issued a disability parking permit.

    HB1870/SB2336: Requires the thirty-day lapse or termination notices for long-term care policies to be sent by certified mail or commercial delivery services, or other method of delivery requiring proof of delivery. Requires an insurer to provide to an insured notification at each renewal premium of the right to indicate or update a written designation.

    HB1871/SB2333: Requires the Executive Office on Aging to report on its assessment of progress made toward the reported goals of the long term care commission and make recommendations as needed to accomplish these goals. Appropriates funds.

    HB1872/SB2337: Appropriates funds to the office of the long-term care ombudsmen for six full-time ombudsmen specialist positions; two each on Oahu and Hawaii and one each on Kauai and Maui.

    HB1873/SB2340: Establishes an outreach program in the Department of Health to inform physicians and appropriate non-physician practitioners participating in medicare that comprehensive care planning services for those with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias is a covered benefit under medicare.

    HB1874/SB2334: Lowers the age of crimes against seniors to sixty years of age, and make certain criminal offenses against seniors applicable regardless of the perpetrator’s knowledge of the victim’s age.