Geriatric medicine

M. D. Heuser and W. R. Hazzard
Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.

To decrease the level of disability in elderly persons, physicians must focus attention on lifestyle choices made by younger adults. Health practices can be influenced by educational programs in the general population and by counseling on an individual level. The optimal duration of estrogen therapy after menopause remains conjectural.