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Ageing : the facts /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coni, Nicholas
Other Authors: Davison, William, Dr, Webster, Stephen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Oxford medical publications.
Subjects:
Aged.
Aging.
Table of Contents:
  • World grows grey
  • Benefits of an ageing society
  • Retirement: the opportunity of age
  • Living arrangements
  • Physical disability
  • Servicing an ageing society
  • Biology of ageing
  • Normal ageing
  • Body's chemical and physical composition
  • Ageing brain
  • Age-related psychological problems
  • Stroke, Parkinson's disease, and motor neurone disease
  • Mobility
  • Nutrition and digestion
  • Bladder and its control
  • Heart, blood vessels, and lungs
  • Eyes, ears, teeth, skin, and feet
  • Cancer
  • Medicines
  • Caring for an infirm elderly person at home
  • Death
  • Bereavement.