title: Preventive geriatrics: basic principles for primary care physicians.
abstract: The goal of preventive geriatrics is to nurture a state of health that allows maximal active life expectancy while maintaining high levels of function. The physician's role in promoting such a state of health is disease prevention and the control of chronic diseases of aging. Barriers such as insufficient time and/or staff resources and insufficient third-party reimbursement restrict the delivery of multiple risk factor intervention and healthy aging counseling in the office setting. A systematic approach to preventive geriatrics proposed by the U.S. Prevention Services Task Force is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson.
authors.forename: E W
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Kligman
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D002423:Cause of Death; D002985:Clinical Protocols / Q000592:standards; D003376:Counseling; D005260:Female; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010819:Physician's Role; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000592:standards*; D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards