TY  - JOUR
AU  - Fossel, Michael
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018/03/28
TI  - What is Geriatrics?
JO  - OBM Geriatrics
SP  - 004
VL  - 02
IS  - 01
AB  - All of us are intuitively aware, and many of us explicitly aware as well, of the meaning of geriatrics as a specialty. After all, most of us practice geriatrics or we have been intimately involved with this area and we are know the reality of geriatrics. Or do we? Geriatrics is an oddly ill-defined specialty when you look at it more carefully. Some of us practice medicine, some of us practice in the social sciences, and many of us simply do our jobs day-to-day and try to get by. What we share, however, is the heart of geriatrics: not simply a willingness, but a passion to help others who are aging. Nor is it simply “aging” in the chronological sense, but rather it is what happens as we age. It is what distinguishes the young newly-adult from the aging older-adult. In keeping with this distinction, our passion is not directed at aging as chronology, but at aging as suffering, fear, pain, disability, and the myriad other problems that arise with increasing frequency as the years grow longer. It’s not the years, it the miles.
SN  - 2638-1311
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21926/obm.geriatr.1801004
DO  - 10.21926/obm.geriatr.1801004
ID  - Fossel2018
ER  -