Ken Covinsky
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1,532 appearances
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1 series
first heard Oct 2016
last heard Sep 2025
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Oh that's his fourth term.
Yeah.
Yes, that's a hard question.
And um having not been in the White House, I can't quite say what the physical demands are.
think there's varying components of f of frailty and physical stamina.
So that for example, the type of quote, I won't even call it frailty, the type of disability that FDR had early in his life, which was paraplegia, you know, seemingly had no bearing on his ability to serve as president.
That, you know, I think ironically, I think a lot of the physical components of doing hard work and hard labor when you're older is the stuff that we actually don't see.
It's the fatigue.
So that, you know, I don't think it's often the walking or the going upstairs that really inhibits the demands of an intellectually demanding.
Position.
It's really actually, you know, the fatigue and sometimes just the ability to get through the day.
When people get older, they just get tired for reasons that often are hard to understand.
They have good days, they have bad days.
So that I think a lot of it is actually stuff that you really can't assess like third hand through a television.
You kind of have to know somebody.
and talk to them and interview them.
You know, this uh comes down to really classic clim geriatric assessment.
So what you demand of a senator could be very different from what you demand of a president.
But it really is very s situationally dependent.
And I would sort of say that I I I agree that often cognitive assessment and you know you know and what we call neurocognitive testing in select situations can be very useful and very
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