A major objective now and in the future should be that of maximizing health and well-being during our essentially fixed span of life. It is proposed that this objective be delegated to a new field of medicine, perhaps to be known as clinical gerontology--a combination of preventive medicine and geriatrics.
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Denham Harman (1976) studied this question.
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