we would like to talk with sher rein mcstat ten, the director and ramona davies of the committee with the city and county of san francisco. welcome. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> our country and every municipality is looking at aging and all the ways of which the values of the country and a state and a local exercise those values into services and understandings of the way that people age and the kinds of services they need. i am wondering if you can give us a short history of what the department of aging and adult services is here. >> certainly. thank you. so san francisco has a long history of providing services for older adults and adults with disabilities and i thank we're a leader in that. the department has been around for a long time, but really came together with a lot of services in 2000. our biggest program is in-home support services which gives home care for 22,000 people in san francisco. but we do a lot of other things, as well. >> the department is a department of 17 years old. >> yes. although the city was providing those services well before that, as well. >> what is