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Old age has various definitions, as the life expectancy advances due to improved healthcare and hygiene. But no one wants to get old! Unfortunately it dawns on everybody, you like it or not. Everything on this planet has a shelf life or ‘best by date’. Although one should be graceful at ageing, most systems of the body do wear out leading ultimately to death in a natural process. Hence, there is no immortality on earth!
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All the X-rays, CT scan images and MRI pictures are from the author’s own cases (except Fig. 1.6a, which has been taken from the Internet).
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Tripathy, L.N. (2019). Neurological Problems of the Elderly. In: Rath, P. (eds) Models, Molecules and Mechanisms in Biogerontology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3585-3_1
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