Being Mortal

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EconomicConditionsandEmergingRisksinBanking:A
Reportto theFDICBoardof Directors,May 9,2006,
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36 Equally worrying: Data on certifications in
geriatricsfrom American Board ofMedical Specialties
and American Board of Internal Medicine.


40 350,000 Americans fall and break a hip: M.
Gillick,The Denialof Aging:PerpetualYouth,Eternal
Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies (Harvard
University Press, 2006).


44 Severalyearsago,researchersattheUniversity
ofMinnesota:C. Boultetal.,“ARandomizedClinical
Trial of Outpatient Geriatric Evaluation and
Management,” Journal of the American Geriatrics
Society49 (2001): 351–59.


52 In a year, fewer than three hundred doctors:
AmericanBoardofMedicalSpecialties,AmericanBoard
ofPsychiatryandNeurology;L.E.Garcez-Lemeetal.,
“Geriatrics in Brazil: A Big Country with Big
Opportunities,” Journal of the American Geriatrics
Society 53 (2005): 2018–22; C. L. Dotchin et al.,
“Geriatric Medicine:Services and Training in Africa,”
Age and Ageing41 (2013): 124–28.


53 Theriskofafatalcarcrash:D.C.Grabowski,C.
M.Campbell,andM.A.Morrissey,“ElderlyLicensure
LawsandMotorVehicleFatalities,”JAMA 291 (2004):
2840–46.

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