Geriatrics in Primary Care Residency Training
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15745929 |
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| Authors | Mukaila A Raji (The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 375-378 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The AMA Journal of Ethic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2376-6980 • E-ISSN: 2376-6980 |
| Publisher | American Medical Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1001/virtualmentor.2008.10.6.medu1-0806 |
| PMID | 23212036 |
| OpenAlex | W96645087 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
To treat the rapidly growing population of people aged 65 and older, residents and medical students need to know how aging and age-associated conditions affect the autonomy and quality of life of elderly patients [1]. Old age does not always mean frailty and senility. Indeed the majority of adults aged 65 and older remain healthy even to their eighties. For some seniors, however, old age comes with disease, limited social and economic resources, and physical and mental impairments
Affect (linguistics · Autonomy · Disease · Environmental health · Family medicine · Geriatrics · Population · Population ageing · Primary care · Psychiatry · Quality of life (healthcare · Frailty in Older Adults · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Gerontology
| Highly cited | No |
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