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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

This includes transportation, driver’s license, parks, volunteerism, housing, and of course health and human services. Utilizers costs about $400 billion a year to serve, have two chronic conditions and two limitations in some functional capacity, need help bathing, dressing, personal care, going to the bathroom, that type of thing.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

So I think what’s really exciting is that these community-based organizations, some of those groups that provide training, transportation, respite care, all of that was never included. Just to let you know, Eric, we have to give the credit to our federal government. And that’s a big part of this new model. Eric: Okay.