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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. Yep, for geriatrics?

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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.