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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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.” But we had a hunch that turned out to be right that by the time these folks were in their fifties, they really had all the geriatric conditions and things we associate with much older. They found that between 2017 and 2030, they think the percentage of the population that’s 65 and up is going to triple in that 15-year period.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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And then I did a geriatric orthopedic fellowship and that was really an exciting opportunity to help hip fracture patients, but then someone knocked on our door. Eric: What’s a geriatric orthopedic fellowship? So I got to help create one of the first geriatric orthopedic fellowships. Eric: Oh, that’s fabulous.