Definition
There are diseases that are not typical of the old age or that manifest themselves starting from non-older ages and tend to worsen in relation to age. Excluding these diseases, there are others that, apart from particular exceptions with early onset, are characteristic of the elderly. “Aging pathology” means the study of these diseases that are typical of old age and in particular the study of the general phenomena that are their primary causes.
Overview
Aging phenomenon, i.e., age-related progressive fitness decline, is explained in two completely different ways (Libertini 2015).
For the first, “nonadaptive aging paradigm”, aging is a varied set of degenerative processes that are unified for convenience under one name. This view is prevalent and is officially reflected in the International Classifications of Diseases (ICD) where there is no distinct code for aging (WHO 2016, 2018)...
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Libertini, G. (2019). Aging Pathology. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_33-1
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