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

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And that’s a good thing to share with an older patient or client that making decisions about your activity. So it is an enormous mental, physical health benefit because we feel we’re still part of the world and we’re making a difference, and we are learning and we’re engaged. So you can just get it in there.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. It was in the mid-nineties, and about half of the patients that we cared for in the inpatient service were homeless.