Special thanks to Dr. Paul Spiegel of Johns Hopkins University for connecting NPR to HelpAge.
Malaka Gharib is an NPR editor and the author and illustrator of I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir, about being first-generation Filipino Egyptian American.
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