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Ageing and medicine
Author(s) -
Grimley Evans J.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.625
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1365-2796
pISSN - 0954-6820
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2796.2000.00621.x
Subject(s) - ageing , healthy ageing , gerontology , medicine , active ageing , ageing society , older people , population ageing , health care , environmental health , population , economic growth , economics
. Grimley Evans J (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK). Ageing and medicine (Review). J Intern Med 2000; 247: 159–167. Throughout the world, populations are ageing. The response of the health services needs to be based on a knowledge of the nature of human ageing and the principles of rational health care for older people. Ageing comes about from interactions between intrinsic (genetic) and extrinsic (environment and lifestyle) factors. Health care has to be responsive to the general needs of older people, but also to recognize the heterogeneity produced by different rates and patterns of individual ageing. There are now real possibilities of improving the course of human ageing through modulation of both intrinsic and extrinsic processes. There is also a need to adapt social institutions to what is a permanent change in demography.