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aging in the 21st century workshop
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In the cold, elderly more likely to break hip
USA Today‘s Kim Painter reminds folks, especially the elderly, to practice “defensive walking” during winter months, citing a “decade-long study…
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Elderly prison population booming
CNN’s Stephanie Chen considers the issues that surround elderly prisoners, a fast-growing group that has generally flown under the radar.…
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Shalala, Wiener: Long-term care left out
Drawing on AHCJ’s Aging in the 21st Century workshop, New America Media’s Paul Kleyman writes on health care reform’s failure…
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‘Too old for surgery’ a more complicated decision
Marie McCullough of The Philadelphia Inquirer takes a look at lifesaving surgeries performed on older patients, finding that “Age is…
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AHCJ speaker writes about physiology of eating
The New York Times‘s Tara Parker-Pope reviewed former FDA chief Dr. David Kessler’s new book, The End of Overeating: Taking…