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ID HCR024
Concurrent Resolution
Status
3/26/2015
Primary Sponsor
Health and Welfare Committee
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AI Summary
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Endorses the Idaho Caregiver Alliance's efforts to create a task force exploring innovative ways to support unpaid family caregivers in Idaho
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Identifies 307,000 Idaho adults providing unpaid care valued at approximately $2 billion annually, with approximately two-thirds employed or seeking work
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Establishes legislative findings that unpaid family caregivers are essential to Idaho's health care system and long-term care delivery, particularly in 22 frontier counties
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Directs the task force to explore policies and resources for family caregivers, compile an inventory of available resources, and make findings available to State Healthcare Innovation Plan leaders
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Requires the task force to report its findings to the Second Regular Session of the Sixty-third Idaho Legislature
Legislative Description
Stating findings of the Legislature and endorsing efforts by the Idaho Caregiver Alliance to explore innovative means to support uncompensated family caregivers in Idaho.
FAMILY CAREGIVERS
Last Action
Delivered to Secretary of State at 11:25 a.m. on April 7, 2015
4/8/2015