California is facing a geriatric tsunami that will overwhelm the state budget, charities, and health care.

It will lead to calls for assisted suicide and euthanasia. The State has the largest senior population in the nation. In 2010 the first baby boomers will bring the senior population to six million. Forty percent of the Boomers are Latino and Asian, half are women. Many will outlive their resources and also encounter age related disabilities.

The California Commission on Aging is the principle advisory body to the Governor and Legislature on public policy for elder Californians. It is developing a “Comprehensive Strategic Plan on Aging.”  Commissioner DeNunzio will address two components of the plan- Elder Abuse and End of Life Care.

How Catholics deal with these life or death issue will resound across the nation and the world.

Mike DeNuzio, Guest Speaker

Mike DeNunzio, Chairman of Development Services Group, is a consultant to nonprofit organizations.  He has guided multi million dollar projects for health care, educational and social services throughout the USA and in Canada, Europe and the Pacific Basin. 

Additionally, Mike is a California Commissioner on Aging appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger and was a City Commissioner under Mayor Willie Brown. He serves on  the boards of: The Handicapables, The Columbus Day Committee, the USF Hospitality Management Program, and the American Institute for Ethics. He was elelcted three times as Chair of the SFRF Republican Party. In 2006 he ran for Congress against Nancy Pelosi.

Mike is a graduate of St Francis Prep, Brooklyn and St. John’s University, N.Y. He taught law and economics at Mc Clancey College Prep  and served six years as a Personnel Specialist in the U.S. Army Reserves.

Mike is married to Annette DeNunzio,  an advisor to the National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi appointed by Cardinal William J. Levada  and is a member of the Little Sisters of the Poor Auxillary.