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Nathan Wetherill Shock
Chief, Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Baltimore, 1941–76. Author of Trends in Gerontology; editor of Perspectives...
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human aging, physiological changes that take place in the human body leading to senescence, the decline of biological functions and of the ability to adapt to metabolic stress. In humans the physiological developments are normally accompanied by psychological and behavioral changes, and other changes, involving social and economic factors, also occur. Aging begins as soon as adulthood is reached and is as much a part of human life as are infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Gerontology (the study of aging) is concerned primarily with the changes that occur between the attainment of maturity and the death of the individual. The goal ...(100 of 5007 words)

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