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KMID : 1024720110010010001
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Geriatric Rehabilitation
2011 Volume.1 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.9
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Biology of Aging
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Choi Eun-Seok
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Abstract
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Aging, an integral part of living, typically is accompanied by gradual but progressive physiologic changes and an increased prevalence of acute and chronic illness, rendering older people at increased risk of developing varying and changing degrees of functional losses and disability. The challenge for health-care providers, accordingly, is to try to prevent, reverse, or at least minimize functional loss resulting from the various chronic illnesses to which the elderly are prone. New concepts such as "compression of morbidity", "active life expectancy," and distinction between "primary aging" and "secondary aging," have been recently proposed, implicating for modifiability of aging process by virtue of addressing such variables as level of physical activity, diet and nutrition, and environmental exposures. The physiatirists who are interested in taking care of older people must be aware of specific age-related physiologic changes, especially of hematologic, renal, cardiopulmonary, neurologic, and musculoskeletal systems, to properly understand disease in the elderly because these changes significantly influence not only the clinical manifestation of disease, but response to treatment and potential complications that may ensue. Such knowledge is also essential to understand underlying mechanisms of functional deterioration secondary to disease and to formulate effective rehabilitation approaches.
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KEYWORD
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Aging, Elderly, Physiology, Rehabilitation
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