Aging of the human nervous system: what do we know?

نویسندگان

  • Richard W Besdine
  • Difui Wu
چکیده

OVERVIEW: AGING IN 21 CENTURY AMERICA Americans have gained >25 years of average life expectancy during the 20 century, and there is no evidence of slowing in the 21st. Although clinical and public health interventions have allowed gains in healthy life expectancy (average age of disability onset) to keep pace with the striking gains in longevity, the sheer numerical increases of older persons portend a burden of disease and disability that will overwhelm the social and financial capacity of our technologically advanced society to manage older persons’ health and health care. And Congress dabbles by trying to trim 12% from the current Medicare growth rate. The tools to meet these care needs are biomedical science coupled with strategic changes in health care delivery for the very old and vulnerable; neurological problems of aging are a major contributor to the morbidity and healthcare costs for older adults.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Medicine and health, Rhode Island

دوره 91 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008