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Frontline: Living Old
November 16, 2006
Miri Navasky producer, FRONTLINE
Karen O'Connor producer, FRONTLINE
Mike Sullivan executive producer, special projects, FRONTLINE

Miri Navasky and Karen O'Connor screen and discuss their film, Frontline: Living Old, a new PBS documentary examining America's looming health care crisis. Produced by Miri Navasky and Karen O'Connor, Living Old explores how the nation's already overburdened geriatric health-care system is facing a possible meltdown, as Americans age 85 and over now represent the fastest-growing segment of the population at a time when there are fewer and fewer workers to care for them.

Geriatrics experts and representatives from the Executive Office of Elder Affairs and the All Care Visiting Nurse Association join the discussion, and Mike Sullivan, Frontline executive producer for special projects, moderates.

This event is hosted by the Boston Center for Adult Education.

Culture & Identity | Health & Happiness
Aging | alzheimers | geriatric medicine | Massachusetts | prescription drugs | senior community's | Frontline | Health & Happiness
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