Geriatric Medicine Quotes

My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply sketched; A bearded mouth talks silently To someone no one else can see. Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first-born child. Smiles are for youth. For old age come Death's terror and delirium.

After age 70, it's patch, patch, patch.

I think our seniors deserve a modern medical system.

Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die.

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

How young can you die of old age?

The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

As a physician, I treated hundreds of patients who needed long-term care, including ones with Alzheimer's.

I got a gerontology certificate a million years ago along with my law degree, so I've been interested in older people for many years. Some people grow up with a lot of kids around, but I just grew up with a lot of old people.

One characteristic aspect of ageing is the increased susceptibility to disease, particularly age-related diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.

The young may die, but the old must!

We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.

Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.