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Aging - An Overview

What kinds of things do people generally deal with as they grow older and live longer? How is the concept of what it means to be "old" changing? And what are the coming challenges specific to California, with the changing demographics in our state?Guest: Dr. Marc Rothman, MD, geriatrician at Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco..Guest: Steve Wallace, associate director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and vice chair of the School of Public Health's Department of Community Health Sciences..

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