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Medicine & Chronic Illness

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Medicine And Chronic Illness

PROLOGUE: The "graying" of America has, not surprisingly, been characterized by increasing numbers of people suffering from chronic illnesses and conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s disease, that impede their ability to function daily. Moreover, the U.S. Administration on Aging (AOA) has estimated that given a current average life expectancy of seventy-five years, a newborn in 2001 can anticipate living with a condition limiting his or her daily activity for upward of thirteen years. Further, because the group age eighty-five and older represents the most rapidly growing segment of the population, activity limitations of twenty years or . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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