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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2000;284:423-424.

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Charleston, WVa—The heart says issues surrounding the health of the rural elderly are more dire than those faced by their urban counterparts, but the brain demands more data.

A lifetime of hard and dangerous rural work has taken its toll on a farmer who now faces old age. (Photo credit: PhotoDisc Inc)

That was one of the key lessons learned during the First International Conference on Rural Aging held here in June and sponsored by the West Virginia University Center on Aging.

Isolation and difficulty getting around are problems for many older women, wherever they live. (Photo credit: PhotoDisc Inc)

"No one is paying attention to the issues surrounding rural aging, and we're trying to bring them visibility," said Robert M. D'Alessandri, MD, conference chair and vice president for health sciences at West Virginia University School of Medicine in Morgantown.

The conference was sponsored by the school . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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