Medicine for older people is the same for anyone else: treat the person, not just the body
- Written by Bill Lukin, Consultant Emergency Physician and Palliative Medicine Trainee Physician, Clinical Associate Lecturer at the School of Medicine, The University of Queensland
Modern medicine too often posits doctors as mechanics and people as machines needing to be fixed. Neil Kumar/Unsplash, CC BY-SAThis article is part of our series on older people’s health. It looks at the changes and processes that occur in our body as we age, the conditions we’re more likely to suffer from and what we can do to prevent...
