UM: Aging Population

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Michigan’s aging population is the topic of an in-depth report in the Detroit Free Press, which quotes Alan Dengiz, a UM professor of geriatric medicine: “The way I teach it to the medical students and the residents (is, especially for the extremely old), ‘You focus on keeping the older individual as independent as possible and making them comfortable and functional. But you’re not focusing on curing, because you’re not going to cure a whole heck of lot at that point.’” [Source]