Optimal care of older women. An opportunity for both prevention and treatment.
As the number of older women and their average life expectancy increase, physicians will need to focus as much on providing preventive, health-promoting care as on treating disease. Drs South-Paul and Woodson present a guide for multidimensional evaluation of asymptomatic older women that can serve as a framework for designing individualized care.
South-Paul
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Department of family medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Bethesda.
Woodson
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D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D005853:Geriatrics; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D011322:Primary Prevention