The “silver tsunami,” a demographic flood of aging baby boomers, is poised to wash over the state beginning this year. Sadly but predictably, California is woefully ill-prepared to roll with this wave.

That’s the conclusion of “A Long-Term Strategy for Long-Term Care,” a report issued last month by the state’s Little Hoover Commission.

“California’s long-term care system is broken,” the report states bluntly. “The state has no reliable means of gauging what clients need, what benefits they receive, which services are used by whom, how much each service costs the state and which programs work the best and are the most cost-effective in keeping people in their homes.

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