Title: Geriatrics age should be a boon not curse for our mothers
Abstract: Over decades health achievements have been made in the country to achieve health for all .Today India has 70 million of elderly population over 60 years of age current health policies do not address significantly to improve the health status of geriatrics population to significant level. It is currently estimated that adults over 60 years make up 8 per cent of India's population and by 2021 that number will be 137 million. India now has the second largest aged population in the world. The small-family norm means that fewer working, younger individuals are called upon to care for an increasing number of economically unproductive, elderly persons. Geriatrics differs from general medicine not in quality, but in the probability structures of diagnosis, presentation of illness and the need for an explicit determination to intervene. Older people need more investigations for comparable levels of diagnostic accuracy. For example, age-related impairment of immunity is associated with increasing lethality and reactivation of latent infections. In addition, the old are more prone to developing side effects to drugs. Though the educational and clinical issues in geriatrics in India are similar to those in developed nations, the large population and the lack of funds make it much more challenging.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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