Preventive gerontology. Strategies for healthy aging

Postgraduate Medicine
W R Hazzard

Abstract

While aging per se cannot be prevented, many of its attendant disabilities can be forestalled until the upper limit of the human life span (about 85 years) is approached. This is the belief that underlies preventive gerontology. Dr Hazzard makes a compelling case for the need to prevent protracted disability and dependency among the increasingly large population of elderly. His strategies reach across the total life span to include early interventions, particularly in the atherosclerotic process, on the theory that the earlier the intervention, the greater the benefit. "Tell me more" was one reviewer's reaction.

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Jul 2, 1987·The New England Journal of Medicine·A R Somers
Jun 1, 1986·Journal of the American Geriatrics Society·W R Hazzard
Mar 1, 1997·Journal of the American Geriatrics Society·T H Goldberg, S I Chavin
Jan 1, 1994·Journal of Gerontological Nursing·M C KreidlerM A Conrad

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