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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

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But now one kid’s off this side of the planet, the other one’s over there, this one’s here, and the elders are not part of a family community, what is more even a community, local community. Ruth: That’s not prevention, that’s screening. And when I was born, people didn’t live past their sixties.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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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. These were usually very physically demanding, low paid, often usually non-union work, that they worked their whole lives and were hanging on by their fingernails. Eric: Oh, wow.