The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has announced the launch of a new series, ‘Care of the Aging Patient: From Evidence to Action,’ to assist physicians in caring for a patient demographic that is rapidly growing in size.
According to an editorial in the December 23/30 issue of JAMA, the proportion of the population aged 60 years or older is expected to increase from 10 percent worldwide in 2005 to 22 percent in 2050, with the steepest rise in the next 25 years. Individuals aged 85 years or older are the most rapidly increasing segment of many populations. Dr. C. Seth Landefeld of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues write that aging will shape the lives of patients and the practice of medicine, and that physicians will spend more time caring for older individuals.
The overall goal of this new series will be to help improve clinical practice and inform policy in care of older individuals, especially those who have started to lose their independence or are at risk of doing so. The first 12 articles explore the course of aging, from the first hints of frailty through events such as difficulty driving a car to the progressive restriction of activities that results from a steady decline. The series seeks to provide clinicians with pragmatic tools and methods for translating published evidence into daily practice, or if evidence does not exist, recommendations with a rationale and a potential research agenda.
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