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Ageism + COVID19 = Elder Genocide: Podcast on nursing homes with Mike Wasserman
One of our earliest COVID podcasts with Jim Wright and David Grabowski a year ago addressed the early devastating impact of COVID on nursing homes.
One year ago Mike Wasserman, geriatrician and immediate past president of the California Long Term Care Association, said we'd have a quarter million deaths in long term care. A quarter of a million deaths. No one would publish that quote - it seemed inconceivable to many at the time. And now, here we are, and the numbers are going to be close.
In this podcast we look back on where we've been over the last year, where we are now, and what's ahead…
The skinny
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