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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

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Emmy: Because if you’ve got other ways to get things delivered or you have good public transportation or you have a lot of family around, that’s a very different kind of calculus than if you live on your ranch and there’s no way to otherwise get to town, and there’s nobody else around. Alex: Yeah. Is this our role?

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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Eric: So probably a very uncommon circumstance where an outpatient provider who’s had this conversation, who’s known the individual for a very long time actually goes to the ICU, communicates with the family and potentially communicates with the ICU providers about who this person is, what’s important to them.

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

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This includes transportation, driver’s license, parks, volunteerism, housing, and of course health and human services. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. To Susan’s point. They touch every single system.