The way we age now: medicine has increased the ranks of the elderly. Can it make old age any easier?

New Yorker. 2007 Apr 30:50-9.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Aged* / physiology
  • Aged* / psychology
  • Aged* / statistics & numerical data
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Aging / ethics*
  • Aging / pathology*
  • Aging / psychology
  • Geriatrics* / economics
  • Geriatrics* / education
  • Geriatrics* / ethics
  • Geriatrics* / history
  • Geriatrics* / methods
  • Geriatrics* / standards
  • Geriatrics* / statistics & numerical data
  • Geriatrics* / trends
  • Health Services for the Aged* / classification
  • Health Services for the Aged* / economics
  • Health Services for the Aged* / history
  • Health Services for the Aged* / statistics & numerical data
  • Health Services for the Aged* / supply & distribution
  • Health Services for the Aged* / trends
  • History, 20th Century
  • History, 21st Century
  • Housing for the Elderly
  • Humans
  • Risk Factors
  • United States / epidemiology