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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, There are more than 20,000 family caregivers age
3 60 and over providing in-home and financial support to adult
4 children with developmental disabilities in Illinois; and
 
5     WHEREAS, It is projected that this number will increase
6 each year due to major changes in the age composition of the
7 nation's population because of lower birth rates, increased
8 longevity, and overall improved health status; and
 
9     WHEREAS, It is projected that most individuals with
10 developmental disabilities will have a life expectancy typical
11 of other individuals, and many of them will reside with parents
12 and other relatives in their own homes instead of in
13 institutions; and
 
14     WHEREAS, These older family caregivers are providing a
15 significant amount of in-home and financial support to their
16 children with developmental disabilities, and many of these
17 older family caregivers will soon be or are currently aging
18 beyond their capacity to provide care to their adult children
19 with developmental disabilities; and
 
20     WHEREAS, Studies have documented the need to locate,
21 inform, and encourage these older family caregivers to accept
22 services provided by both the aging and the disability
23 networks; therefore, be it
 
24     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL
25 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge the United
26 States Congress to amend the federal Older Americans Act to
27 include older family caregivers of adult children with
28 developmental disabilities as an eligible population to be
29 served by the National Family Caregiver Support Program; and be
30 it further
 

 

 

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1     RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be delivered to
2 each member of the Illinois congressional delegation.