Nursing home medicine--a gloomy profession?
By controlling life-style and environmental hazards and seeking appropriate medical care, many people can enjoy a healthy, independent old age; various psychological schema provide models for such "successful" aging. But we must turn to the humanities for a vision of aging that sees meaning in lives characterized by incontinence, immobility, and confusion.
Rudman
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D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000592:standards*; D010146:Pain; D011788:Quality of Life; D014481:United States