Geriatrics Handbook

People are living longer. Life expectancy has doubled in the last two hundred years. We expect the number of centenarians to be over 200,000 in the next ten years. Those living into their eighties and nineties will be common. Over the next ten years, it is possible that 30 percent of the population will be retired adults above the age of sixty-five. Increasing longevity and aging has its positives and negatives. It is desirable to see that people are living longer, but they also face an increasi