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A public long-term care financing program was introduced during the 2016 Legislative Session in Hawaii. The proposed program was based on the recommendations of a Long-term Care Commission study and an actuarial study funded by the State Legislature. While Hawaii was the first state in the U.S. to introduce a public long-term care financing bill, it was Hawaii's second attempt to pass a similar bill since 2002. This paper will present public discourse analysis using testimonies submitted during the 2016 session, compared to those submitted 14 years ago. We will also examine a community awareness campaign that aims to increase knowledge of options for long-term care among the public. We will present the media message as well as describe community forums which have taken place and the impact of these efforts in shaping public's opinion on the proposed public long-term care financing program.

This research examines the relationship between caregiving for elders, partitioned by place of residence, and being employed. Recent legislation in Hawaii (SB534 SD1) directed toward supporting working caregivers inspires this research project. Caregiving is an intensive activity that can affect not only physical and mental health but financial health as well. If caregiving activities lead to early retirement from the workforce then the financial effects go beyond immediate fiscal needs and can lead to the caregiver's own retirement funds and Social Security benefits to be reduced. Data (n=97,327) come from five years, 2011–2015, of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), a U.S. national household survey conducted on a subset of the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS). The ATUS is sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. Employment is examined using logistic regression. Care time is examined by total time spent caregiving then partitioned into care time given to household members and care time given to non-household members. Care is further examined by count of elderly care receivers also partitioned by whether the care receivers live in the household of the caregiver. Results indicate that caregiving is associated with not being employed but there is a difference between caregiving for household members and non-household members. Caring for household members is more strongly related to unemployment than caring for non-household members.