Yet McCune routinely joins his teammates in the gym and on the track. And "more than the physical stuff is the mental stuff," he said, "of getting me to interact with people."
But at the VA, getting older veterans such as McCune together to hit the track is part of a broader push to improve their lives - and possibly even to save them.
When suicides reached a historic high for the country in 2022, the sobering numbers were being driven up by their deaths. The starkest statistics were for men past their 75th birthdays, who were dying by suicide at more than twice the rate of men younger than 25.
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