In a county known for wealth, hiking trails and waterfront views, one demographic is reshaping the reality of Marin County: older adults.

About 60,000 Marin County residents are 65 or older, according to data collected by Neilsberg Research, meaning roughly one in four county residents are seniors, significantly higher than California’s statewide average of about one in six. Yet advocates and service providers say many older adults remain unaware of the public programs and support services they already qualify for, often discovering them only after a health crisis.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.