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Summary of Living Old Living Old was a movie about people starting to live longer. It is very common now days for people to be living into their seventies, eighties, nineties, and sometimes one hundreds. In today’s world, medicine and technology have come so far that they are able to treat most infectious diseases that people use to die from. But now that we are able to treat all of these infectious disease people are now dying from their chronic (illness) diseases instead. Now that people are starting to live longer there needs to be more specialized doctors just for geriatrics, but there is such an increase in our older generation called the baby boomers that there is not going to be an efficient amount of doctors to take care of these

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