title: [Changes in the concept of aging and what it involves].
abstract: In contrast to other organisms, which have a completely variable determination of their life span, man has achieved a prolongation of his life span. Previously, the minority surviving to old age were honoured for a fulfilled life. Today society must cope with a large number of ill as well as active elderly individuals. Creativity among the elderly is as rare as it is among the younger population, but the link to very cost intensive inactivity in life and science is as unchangeable as in phylogenesis, and possibly even necessary. This leads necessarily to a reserve among the young towards the old: They are politely tolerated.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgische Universitätsklinik, Bonn-Venusberg.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Stelzner
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003405:Creativity; D005260:Female; D016330:Frail Elderly / Q000523:psychology*; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male
vernacular_title: Der Wandel des Altersbegriffes und was damit zusammenhängt.