title: Origins of British geriatrics.
abstract: We may see from the foregoing account that British physicians have played a major part in the history of geriatric medicine. Other countries have no counterpart to J H Sheldon of Wolverhampton, whose work on the social medicine of old age was so fundamental, or George Adams of Belfast, to whom we owe such a debt of knowledge about cerebrovascular disease in the aged, or to Marjory Warren and the other pioneers mentioned above. Long may this tradition continue.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000266:history*; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006752:Hospital Planning / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008136:Longevity; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D006113:United Kingdom