Special Report: Geriatricians Cite Looming Silver Tsunami

Courtesy MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Thu, 05/15/2008 - 20:41

WASHINGTON -- The healthcare system and society at large are about to be inundated by what the American Geriatrics Society calls the silver tsunami -- a wave of Americans living into their eighth and ninth decades with few willing or able to care for them.


 

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