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Health Affairs, 28, no. 1 (2009): 240-245 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.1.240 © 2009 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Narrative Matters

Shuffling In Grandmother’s Footsteps

Phyllis Richman

THE LAST INAUGURATION MY GRANDMOTHER SAW was Lyndon Johnson’s. Both her newspaper and her TV were black-and-white. It was the 1960s, and she knew nothing of the Internet. She’d built a family business of five discount shoe stores in four states with no computer. In her retirement she would have been thrilled by cell phones for keeping in touch with her five children and fifteen grandchildren. She probably would have e-mailed the president whenever she had a complaint.

Science has made my "golden years" easier and safer and far more connected with the world than my grandmother could even . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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