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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

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James: Definitely not-. Eric: Yeah, this is definitely… If you grew up in the ’80s, this is the slow dancing song. It predicts mortality, it predicts time to walking disability, so time until someone can’t walk across a room, and time to ADL disability. Alex Smith: Were you alive when this song came out?

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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Than someone who is perhaps dependent on all their ADLs. The folks who became homeless late in life became chronically homeless, because chronic homelessness is by definition being homeless for more than a year, more or less, and having a disabled condition. Yeah, that was adjusting for the age of first homeless. So really interesting.