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Studying Our Aging Population to Improve Healthcare
Studying Our Aging Population to Improve Healthcare
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Released:
Nov 10, 2008
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Podcast episode
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Guest: William Hall, MD
Host: Maurice Pickard, MD
Dr. William Hall, director of the Center for Healthy Aging at Highland Hospital in Rochester, New York, discusses with host Dr. Maurice Pickard the unprecedented increase in members of our population age 85 and older, and the role this may play in exceptional longevity. We know more today than we ever have before about disease factors that cause disability and frailty, such as depression, neuromuscular stability, cognitive status and urinary incontinence. How will these factors help to support older patients?
Host: Maurice Pickard, MD
Dr. William Hall, director of the Center for Healthy Aging at Highland Hospital in Rochester, New York, discusses with host Dr. Maurice Pickard the unprecedented increase in members of our population age 85 and older, and the role this may play in exceptional longevity. We know more today than we ever have before about disease factors that cause disability and frailty, such as depression, neuromuscular stability, cognitive status and urinary incontinence. How will these factors help to support older patients?
Released:
Nov 10, 2008
Format:
Podcast episode
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