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Frail elderly people are as unlike healthy younger adults as babies are. Neonatology has worked out much of the biology and pharmacology of infants, during decades of clinical experience and research. Geriatrics has now begun the fascinating project of defining a clinical science of frailty. Elderly people are also as different from one another as they are from younger adults, and so they tend to defy generalization, biologically and pharmacologically.
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Sloan, J.P. (1991). Theory of Drug Therapy and Aging. In: Protocols in Primary Care Geriatrics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0388-6_13
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