01.06.2019 | Editorial
Geriatric medical humanities: fresh insights into ageing and geriatric medicine
verfasst von:
D. O’Neill
Erschienen in:
European Geriatric Medicine
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Ausgabe 3/2019
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Excerpt
Geriatricians differ from the broader grouping of gerontologists in that they are the discipline most likely to be in daily contact with older people [
1]. This is simultaneously a strength and a weakness: a strength in that they are in constant contact with the reality of being an older person, and a weakness in that this is largely confined to those with usually complex healthcare needs. The healthcare paradigm means that our discourse may consciously or unconsciously reflect a failure model of ageing [
2], and we may be less aware of the broader experience of ageing in increasingly healthy and growing populations of older people. …