Forbes August 4, 2020
COVID-19 is an epidemic transpiring largely out of sight. It’s caused by a microscopically small virus. Infected people are admitted to isolated hospital wards, where they’re kept separate from other patients and even their own family members. When people get better, they emerge from the hospital, usually acting and looking no different from the way they did before they got sick.
At the same time, there’s another widespread outbreak wreaking havoc with our nation that, unlike COVID, is transpiring in plain sight. It affects 43% of American seniors (Perissinotto, Cenzer, and Covinsky, 2012) and, once it takes hold, it can increase a person’s risk of mortality by up to 50 percent. In fact, people who experience this condition face a...
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