Seniors now make up nearly a quarter of Grand Traverse County’s population, and they’re driving close to half of Munson Medical Center’s inpatient admissions, says Dr. Jonathan Beaulac, a geriatric and internal medicine physician at Munson Healthcare (MHC).
“It is a vast majority,” he said.
With baby boomers aging into retirement and Gen X not far behind, that number is only going to grow over the next two decades, says Beaulac, and with it, the …