Public Interest Report No. 27 : The need for teaching geriatric medicine

International Journal of Aging & Human Development
R N Butler

Abstract

Geriatric medicine, the body of knowledge relating to human aging and associated pathological conditions, must be incorporated systematically and comprehensively into American medical education. Students must be exposed to aging in the context of normal human development and be aware that some diseases present differently in the old.

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