Advantages, development opportunities, and practice paths of traditional Chinese medicine in prevention and treatment of elderly comorbidities.
10.19540/j.cnki.cjcmm.20230531.601
- Author:
Yi-Li ZHANG
1
;
Xin-Yi HUANG
2
;
Liang WANG
1
;
Jin-Ran QIN
1
;
Bao-Yu QI
3
;
Yan-Ming XIE
4
;
Li-Guo ZHU
3
;
Xu WEI
3
Author Information
1. School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine,Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine Nanjing 210023, China.
2. School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University Nanjing 211166, China.
3. Wangjing Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences Beijing 100102, China.
4. Institute of Basic Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences Beijing 100700, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Healthy China;
aging society;
elderly comorbidities;
traditional Chinese medicine
- MeSH:
Aged;
Humans;
Medicine, Chinese Traditional;
Public Health;
Comorbidity;
Drugs, Chinese Herbal/therapeutic use*
- From:
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
2023;48(17):4798-4802
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
This article focused on the significant public health issue of comorbidities in the elderly population and highlighted the important role of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) in the prevention and treatment of comorbidities in the elderly. It suggested that TCM should fully utilize its advantages in holistic perspective, syndrome differentiation and treatment, and preventive medicine in the process of preventing and treating comorbidities in the elderly. At the same time, in response to the significant shift in the disease spectrum of the elderly, the increasingly innovative concepts in diagnosis and treatment, the growing demand for proactive health by the el-derly population, and the current emphasis on patient-centered evaluation standards, it is necessary to further conduct basic theoretical and experimental research on comorbidities in the elderly using TCM, emphasize clinical research on comorbidities in the elderly, explore appropriate efficacy evaluation systems, improve TCM prevention and treatment strategies and comprehensive intervention programs for comorbidities in the elderly, and leverage the unique role of TCM in the rehabilitation of elderly comorbidity patients. By analyzing the potential of TCM in the field of comorbidities in the elderly, this article is expected to provide new insights for future clinical practice and scientific research.
