Abstract
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as a state of physical, mental and social well-being. Perhaps more than any other hospital-based discipline, geriatric medicine tries to honour this concept. The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) has defined geriatric medicine as ‘that branch of general medicine concerned with the clinical, rehabilitative, social and preventive aspects of illness and health in the elderly’. Within this definition, the term ‘general medicine’ refers to general (internal) medicine in its widest sense, covering all the specialist disciplines such as neurology, cardiology, gastroenterology, etc., while the word ‘clinical’ covers both physical and mental aspects. This definition expands the WHO definition of health, relates directly to the elderly and places an onus on the hospital-based geriatric medical service to become involved not only in the social aspects of illness, but also in health and the prevention of illness, implying thereby the promotion of health.
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Hall, M. (1988). Geriatric Medicine Today. In: Wells, N., Freer, C. (eds) The Ageing Population. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19093-5_5
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