PERTINENT PROBLEMS OF GERIATRIC MEDICINE
Authors: Edward J. Stieglitz
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1943)

Article1 January 1943PERTINENT PROBLEMS OF GERIATRIC MEDICINEEDWARD J. STIEGLITZ, M.S., M.D., F.A.C.P.EDWARD J. STIEGLITZ, M.S., M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-18-1-89 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptGeriatric medicine is that branch of medical science which treats of the elderly in all their physiologic and pathologic relations. Its problems are not confined to those patients actually senile, for the infirmities and disorders of later years arise insidiously far earlier than their clinical manifestations. Aging, as a process or series of processes, is continuous. It starts at conception and terminates only with death. Aging is a part of living. To arrest aging, therefore, would mean destroying life. Evolution, or growth, and involution, or atrophy, occur simultaneously throughout the life span. Even during fetal life localized atrophies occur, as...Bibliography1. STIEGLITZ EJ: The urgency of gerontology, News Edition, Am. Chem. Soc., 1941, xix, 1147. Google Scholar2. Bureau of the Census, U. S. Department of Commerce, "United States Life Tables, 1930-1939 (Preliminary)," July 21, 1941; "Composition of the Population by Age, Sex, and Color, United States (Preliminary), 1940," Series P-5, No. 1., Jan. 30, 1941; "Estimated Future Population, by Age and Sex: 1945 to 1980, the United States," Series P-3, July 23, 1941. Google Scholar3. BOAS EP: The unseen plague: chronic illness, 1941, J. J. Augusten, New York. Google Scholar4. LANDISPAGE CJD: Modern society and mental disease, 1938, Farrar and Rinehart, New York. Google Scholar5. PIERSOLBORTZ GMEL: The aging process: A medical-social problem, ANN. INT. MED., 1939, xii, 964. Google Scholar6. STIEGLITZ EJ: Geriatric medicine, 1943, W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. Google Scholar7. STIEGLITZ EJ: Potentialities of preventive geriatrics, New England Med. Jr., 1941, ccxxv, 247. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. STIEGLITZ EJ: Aging as an industrial health problem, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1941, cxvi, 1383. Aging as a problem of industrial health, South. Med. and Surg., 1941, ciii, 546. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Washington, D. C.*Read before 26th Annual Session, American College of Physicians, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 23, 1942. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited by"Gerodontology": The Study of Changes in Oral Tissues Associated with Aging1"Gerodontology": The Study of Changes in Oral Tissues Associated with Aging1The nature of supporting tissues for complete denturesTraumatism and Atrophy: Etiology, Pathology and SymptomatologyTHE RATIONALE OF GERIATRIC MEDICINE*EDWARD J. STIEGLITZ, M.S., M.D., F.A.C.P.“Gerodontology”: The Study of Changes in Oral Tissues Associated with agingConstructive MedicineConstructive Medicine 1 January 1943Volume 18, Issue 1Page: 89-95KeywordsAgingAtrophyElderlyGeriatrics ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 January 1943 PDF downloadLoading ...