so what we're proposing is adding 8 social workers, 2 social worker techs and an ihhs nurse to be able to catch up with the need for annual assessments. >> can i ask through the chair, mr. rourke, miss hinton is here as well that the projections for the senior prop police station are exploding and i'm just wondering why the numbers of case load are not going up higher given the baby boomers turning into seniors really really rapidly and it just seems like we need to project out as the baby boom generation will fill out in about 10 years. >> right. >> so that we are ready for the huge increase in seniors. >> that's correct, supervisor. san francisco, about 18 percent of our population is 65 and older. statewide average is about 14 percent of the population, so we see here a disproportionate number of seniors. in terms of why it's leveled off, i think there could be a lot of explanations, demographickly or program wise, i think we did a fantastic job increasing our penetration rate over the last 10 years, we're really reaching through community partners, through partnerships with hospita

so what we're proposing is adding 8 social workers, 2 social worker techs and an ihhs nurse to be able to catch up with the need for annual assessments. >> can i ask through the chair, mr. rourke, miss hinton is here as well that the projections for the senior prop police station are exploding and i'm just wondering why the numbers of case load are not going up higher given the baby boomers turning into seniors really really rapidly and it just seems like we need to project out as the baby boom generation will fill out in about 10 years.