“The older adult population dominates the epidemic. A lot of people still don’t know that,” said Stephen Karpiak, senior director for research at ACRIA and a co-author of the survey report. “We’ve done a very good job to this point (in the epidemic) but we’re not prepared to do the next leg, which is a difficult one. And the older adult is feeling abandoned.”
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