Why should the infectious diseases community focus on aging and care of the older adult?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 196-200

  High, Kevin P ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY CARE; ELDERLY CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INFECTION; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; AGED; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RETIREMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETIREMENT;

EID: 0041766708     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/376606     Document Type: Note

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