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...business of caring for the elderly, mentally ill and disabled in some areas of California is dominated by immigrants from the Philippines. According to Charles Skoien, executive vice president of the California Association of Residential Care Homes, about half of the nonmedical rest homes in the San Francisco and Santa Rosa areas are Filipino owned. The newcomers say they drifted into that field in part because of their cultural heritage. Says Zenaida Mallari, 40, a Philippine-born owner of two six-bed facilities: "In the rest of the world you find the families are extended. Without asking...
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