Jul 10, 2017 · 1 min read
It’s great that Hawaii is getting serious about eldercare issues. I do have to wonder why bill set the minimum age of the person who needs care at 60. There are 60-year-olds who need care, of course, but there are also 3-year-olds and 30-year-olds who need care, so age seems fairly irrelevant. If for some reason you wanted to keep younger people with health conditions out of the pool and make elders the only ones eligible, 60 seems low. It’s not impossible for the infirmities of age to strike at (or even before) 60, but I imagine that most of the Hawaiians in their 60s who need care needed care all their lives, or at least before they turned 60.
