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Thea Agnew-Bemben

12:48 - 13:16

“one of them is to be able to do short-term assisted living for people who otherwise would be— Uh-huh. In shelter as a way to bridge them into the benefits that are needed to get them into actual assisted living.”
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And these are all things to test responses to the gaps that we're observing. So for example, one of them is to be able to do short-term assisted living for people who otherwise would be— Uh-huh. In shelter as a way to bridge them into the benefits that are needed to get them into actual assisted living. So, and then we have a bunch of other ones. So that's, it's a big lift.

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