Missouri Voters Pass Proposition B to Ensure Choice to Live at Home for Seniors, Disabled
Seniors, people with disabilities, attendants, and home care advocates celebrated the passage of Proposition B, the Quality Home Care Act, as a major victory in the effort to ensure quality home care services for Missouri’s growing senior population and its citizens with disabilities.
The measure passed overwhelmingly, with support from 75 percent of voters.
“I’m thrilled. This is fantastic news for Missourians who need long term care and for caregivers like me,” said St. Louis home care attendant Tasha McGhee. “The next step is to work together to improve our jobs and the services we provide.”
Prop B Wins Endorsements from Top State Papers
Citing the need to stabilize the state’s home care workforce to improve services and prepare for a 72 percent surge in the senior population, the editors at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Kansas City Star have publicly endorsed Proposition B, the measure to create a Quality Home Care Council in Missouri on the November ballot.
READ: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Oct 16, 2008
READ: Kansas City Star, Oct 23, 2008
Missourians Speak Out for the Choice to Live at Home
Proposition B will ensure seniors and people with disabilities have access to quality home care services when they need them by establishing a Quality Home Care Council.
A Quality Home Care Council will help ensure Missouri's growing population of seniors and people with disabilities can live independently at home instead of an institution by running a statewide worker registry and backup system, offering trainings, and negotiating with caregivers to improve wages and benefits.
The demand for reliable services that allow people with disabilities and the elderly to stay in their homes as long as possible is projected to rise dramatically in the next decade.
We need to act now to ensure that a reliable, qualified workforce of trained caregivers is available for the growing population of people who choose home care services.
GET THE FACTS.
GET INVOLVED.
VOTE YES FOR QUALITY CARE ON NOV. 4.
Initiative to Improve Missouri Home Care Certified for November Ballot
Quality Home Care Council would help stabilize workforce, ensure seniors and people with disabilities can live at home instead of in an institution
Seniors and people with disabilities took one step closer to having a real voice to improve home care services in Missouri as Secretary of State Robin Carnahan certified that a ballot initiative to create a Quality Home Care Council has gained enough signatures from voters to appear on the November ballot. READ MORE.
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Creating a Quality Home Care Council will help ensure Missouri's growing population of seniors and people with disabilities can live independently at home instead of an institution.
The demand for reliable services that allow people with disabilities and the elderly to stay in their homes as long as possible is projected to rise dramatically in the next decade.
We need to act now to ensure that a reliable, qualified workforce of trained caregivers is available for the growing population of people who choose home care services.