What is Geriatric Disease?.
- Author:
Hyung Joon YOO
1
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. yooyoo1@kornet.net
- Publication Type:Review
- MeSH:
Aging
- From:Journal of the Korean Geriatrics Society
2008;12(2):61-67
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
Geriatric disorder is a polyhedron of conditions which reflects diverse features from different angles. It is an accumula tion of time which is an important variable of successful aging, a state of functional change, one syndrome, and one category. Geriatric disease needs more research and more argument to define the integrated definition of the geriatric disorder to be developed.
