Preventive health care in elderly people needs rethinking

AUTOR(ES)

Mangin, Dee

FONTE

BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

RESUMO

Dee Mangin, Kieran Sweeney, and Iona Heath argue that, rather than prolonging life, preventive treatments in elderly people simply change the cause of death—the manner of our dying

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