J Korean Geriatr Soc.
2008 Jun;12(2):61-67.
What is Geriatric Disease?
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Internal Medicine, Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. yooyoo1@kornet.net
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.
