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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

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So the data relating to the number of geriatricians in this country, salaries in comparison to hospitalists or primary care physicians. We were never going to have all the geriatricians that folks had forecast, whether it was 25,000 in 2025 or 30,000 in 2030, we were never going to get there. But she wrote this a counter.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? 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. The worse the structural factors are, the fewer individual factors you need to become homeless.