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Health Care for the Elder Population in Cuba

By Dr. Babette Becker
Psychotherapist, Geriatric Care Manager, Writer

Introduction

I visited Cuba for 18 days to learn about the physical and mental health care and the response to the social and familial needs of the elderly. As a practicing psychotherapist and geriatric care manager in New York City, this trip was to be a preliminary attempt to see what I could learn, with whom I might be able to talk, and what sites I would be given permission to visit.

I put together a list of questions that I hoped would be flexible enough to include the range of health care professionals I wanted to interview and/or the sites I hoped to visit. My next task was to find out whom I had to see to secure the permission(s). Once I started interviewing, I revised my list of questions a few times to more appropriately reflect the Cuban health care system as I learned more about it.

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Cuban Music Professors meet
'Essentially Ellington'
at Jazz at Lincoln Center
This May 10—12,  2013, Horns to Havana,  worked with Jazz at Lincoln Center in bringing
four (4) music teachers/band leaders from Cuba to observe and participate in the 18th Annual
Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival that took place at Jazz at
Lincoln Center in New York City. The festival's  aim is to encourage young musicians to play
music by Duke Ellington and other seminal jazz artists.


The four Cuban professors, Victor Vargas, Yariel Hernandez, Enrique Rodriguez and Rodolfo Horta (above) Wynton Marsalis, Enrique Rodriquez and Todd Stoll (below)

 

 

 

 

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