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Persons > Age Groups > Adult > Aged

Preferred term

Aged  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Elderly

Note

  • almost always check tag: NIM no qualifiers; see Manual Chapter 9; differentiate from AGING, a physiological process, & AGE FACTORS & AGE DISTRIBUTION, statistical concepts

Scope note

  • A person 65 through 79 years of age. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available.

History note

  • 1966; was see under GERIATRICS 1963-65

In other languages

  • vanhukset

    Finnish

  • ikäihminen
  • ikäihmiset
  • ikääntyneet
  • ikääntynyt
  • iäkkäät
  • iäkäs
  • vanhus
  • Äldre

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000368

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