Louise Aronson

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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Ageism in the Time of COVID: Podcast with Louise Aronson · 28 Jul 2020 podcast

All these old people who are locked up and depressed and

And losing conditioning, losing mental function, if they had a fitted N95, they could go out, they could live, and then they wouldn't be such a burden on the health system.

We've created that burden.

Yeah, no, we literally can't get it.

Like I'm doing it at a site that is at a facility that's had several cases, you know, how do I find one?

And then the K95, maybe it doesn't need to be fit tested.

So if it doesn't need to be fit tested, does that mean like the air can, just like, are you kidding me?

Yeah, you really, and people say these things and it literally does not occur to them that this is systematic structural ageism.

Well, if you can be part of any COVID related effort, you should be.

I mean, at the beginning, they were calling for people to help in the hospital and ICUs.

So, you know, I last worked in that setting in the 1990s in a serious way.

So I'm kind of thinking like you would be getting not good care if you received it from me.

So I was thinking, well, what else can I do?

Because there's so many ways you can help and use what you know.

You know, so obviously I was writing the articles and I was volunteering at UCSF, but

But then we said, Serge, you didn't really need me.

So then I looked at the Department of Public Health.

And for me, it was that people I had trained with, one guy who was ahead of me as our health officer and the guy who's in charge of health services for the city was a year behind me.

So I just wrote them a note and said, look, can I do anything?

And then it turned out that the Department of Public Health was really happy to have geriatricians.

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