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Geriatrics

Known as: Geriatric medicine, Geriatric/Gerontology, geriatric medicine (field) 
The branch of medicine concerned with the physiological and pathological aspects of the aged, including the clinical problems of senescence and… 
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1992
1992
Qualitative research comes of age in gerontology.
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Hierarchical Measures of Physical Function in Ambulatory Geriatrics
Brief and uncomplicated methods for obtaining information on functional status would facilitate the assessment of older patients… 
1987
1987
An attempt to answer the questions of theoretical gerontology on the basis of the membrane hypothesis of aging
1984
1984
The aging experience : an introduction to social gerontology / Russell A. Ward
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Illness as the focus of geriatric medicine.
The quest to define the disease responsible for a patient's distress is important when the disease is acute or potentially… 
Review
1983
Review
1983
Clinical Geriatric Medicine
This is an important collection of reviews of 17 topics in clinical gerontology, arranged mainly as discussions of organ systems… 
1983
1983
Intergenerational Care Providers of Non-Institutionalized Frail Elderly
This study reports on the care provided to (41) non-institutionalized frail older persons by their children and/or grandchildren… 
1979
1979
Counseling Elders and Their Families: Practical Techniques for Applied Gerontology
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Learned control of cardiac rate and cardiac conduction in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
IT has been shown that normal men can be trained to slow, speed and cyclically slow and speed heart rate.1 2 3 4 Patients with… 
Highly Cited
1960
Highly Cited
1960
Handbook of social gerontology
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