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Emergency Department Go-Bags for Seniors

Author
Vermont Public
Published
Tue 15 Jul 2025
Episode Link
https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_10653_cae49dfa-18ba-4687-9d7f-a7ef28cbe29c&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcasts.vpr.net%2Fthe-frequency

Nearly one-quarter of emergency department visits among patients 60-and-older nationally resulted in a hospital stay. A Rutland man, worried about his widowed father, made an emergency hospital go-bag for his dad, and experts say more of us should have them. Plus, budget cuts have prompted layoffs at the Vermont Foodbank, areas of Montreal are recovering from flooding, and people who work with refugees and asylum seekers in Vermont are struggling to keep up with recent changes to federal immigration laws.

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