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According to T. Franklin Williams, director of the National Institute on Aging, it is only recently that doctors have begun to make this shift, tailoring geriatric research and practice to keeping disability at bay. The reorientation has been emotionally difficult because it flies in the face of traditional medicine, which has always been based on [...]

The road that can have a nursing home as its final stop begins with chronic disease, those illnesses of aging that begin insidiously, get progressively worse, and strike more and more of us as the years advance. Most older people have at least one chronic illness. However, the medical diagnosis is not the only thing [...]