THE ELDERLY With a falling birth-rate and people living longer, it is inevitable that our community is ageing. It is no surprise that geriatric medicine, the medical care of the elderly, has quickly evolved into a major specialty. Aging is a highly individualized matter. There is no single measure of how "old" a person is. Aging proceeds at different rates in different people and at various rates in various systems of the same person. ...

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This is why it is very important as a nurse taking care of an HIV patient to emphasize the importance of compliance to treatment and medications. ... Another important subject a nurse must emphasize on HIV patients is proper nutrition, because people with HIV require more energy than healthy people. ...

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