more than 30 percent of china town are 65 and older twice the rate of san flrancisco population. how do we get the home bound seniors eshg vac wait. how do we find out if they are okay? another thing is language and cullural issues. a percentage of china town residents are what we call linguistically isolated meaning no one in the household age 14 or older speak english well. what this means is that all our response plans have to keep in mind that factor the signs and volunteer workers need to community in cantonese and mandarin. our trainings have to be cond t conducted in multilanguages. we convened a preparedness committee composed of organizations in china town. includes the we are fortunate to have 3 medical facilities in china town. chinese hospital. public health center 4 and we also have northeast medical service. these 3 organizations are part of our response network. we have the senior care organization such as self help for the elderly. senior health. the housing service like china town community development center that manage maevent sro buildings. we have various oth