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Join LI-CAN'S Community Meeting To Improve Home Health Care On Long Island

SENIORS  •Do you  need a well-trained home health aide who can get to your home? Come learn more.

HOME HEALTH AIDE LIVING ON LONG ISLAND •Do you want a better job, training and supervision, and lower cost transportation to your job? Come and sign up! 

CONCERNED RESIDENT •Do you want to be part of a powerful community organization that gets things done? 

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Long Island is experiencing an escaclation of baby boomers who are aging and who are looking for ways to age in place – in their own homes.  

Unfortunately there are many more seniors that need home health care and Long Island's current infrastructure can't handle that demand. 

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On March 25, 2012, at 4:15 p.m., in Westbury, LI-CAN will announce a groundbreaking program in exclusive partnership with Partners in Care and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and the Town of North Hempstead to create a pilot program designed to ultimately improve the delivery of home health care for Long Island Seniors.  The program will provide a better job market and subsidized transportation for home health aides. 

Join LICAN at this Community Meeting to let your voice be heard. 

LI-CAN (Long Island Congregations, Associations and Neighborhoods) is comprised of Long Island synagogues, churches and a mosque, social service agencies, and organizations of people in recovery.  LI-CAN is an affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF).

Where: Our Lady of Hope Regional School/St.Brigid’s                     101 Maple Avenue, Westbury, NY 11590 

When: 4:15 p.m. on March 25, 2012

RSVP TO LET US KNOW YOU ARE COMING!  LICANIAF@YAHOO.COM

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