A concept of geriatric medicine.

RD Cape - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1976 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
As long as the nature of the ageing process is incompletely understood, working concepts
concerning the pathophysiology of ageing will be useful to physicians who look after older …

Therapeutic aspects of geriatric medicine

WB Kountz - Journal of the American Medical Association, 1953 - jamanetwork.com
Perhaps a discussion of geriatric medicine should begin with consideration of the purpose of
this field of medical science. Present hospital reports tell the story of persons past midlife …

Some physiological aspects of aging in man

NW Shock - Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 1956 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
'LTHOUGH a precise definition of aging may offer semantic difficulties, it is a concept which
all individuals recognize, particularly those who have attained the age of 50. Aging is a …

[BOOK][B] Diseases in old age: a clinical and pathological study of 7941 individuals over 61 years of age

RT Monroe - 1951 - degruyter.com
Jf geriatrics is to become a distinct discipline among the medical arts and sciences, it must
develop and constantly accumulate a body of facts and methods comparable to those which …

Geriatrics: A Contribution of Twenty-Five Carefully Studied Patients Who Are Active and in Good Health beyond Eighty Years of Age

LJ Brunie - California and Western Medicine, 1938 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pepper, 8 in 1936, carefully outlined in his" Notes in the Field of Geriatrics" the differences
between senescence, or the normal physiological aging, and senility, or the abnormal …

Annual Graduate Fortnight. the Problem of Aging and of Old Age, October 1 to 14, 1928: Old Age and What It Means to the Community

LI Dublin - Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 1928 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
ANNUAL GRADUATE FORTNIGHT discussion of old age begin with a clear-cut definition.
The words" old age" have a wide variety of interpretations, all in good current usage. For …

[CITATION][C] Growth and senescence

NO Calloway - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1966 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of senescence is perhaps even more difficult to grasp. It is the decline of any or
all of the foregoing factors, but it can undoubtedly occur in the presence of growth. It would …

Why aging?

DW Martin Jr - Western Journal of Medicine, 1981 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
HUMANS HAVE BEEN INTERESTED in the phenome-non of aging throughout their
existence and seem-ingly for two main reasons: the general and innate human curiosity …

Medical problems of old age

RT Monroe - New England Journal of Medicine, 1949 - Mass Medical Soc
EIGHT years ago, a geriatric clinic was established in the Out-Door Department of the Peter
Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. Its purpose was to study old people from a fresh point of …

Concepts of aging: an historical review

RL Grant - Perspectives in biology and Medicine, 1963 - muse.jhu.edu
The aged, and the problems ofaging, have been ofconcern to man from his very beginnings.
In common with all other macroscopic living things, he has a limited life span. Man alone …