Editorial It's Never Too Late: Health Promotion and Illness Prevention in Older Persons
Open Access
- 1 June 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journals of Gerontology: Series A
- Vol. 57 (6) , M338-M342
- https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/57.6.m338
Abstract
MORE than 20 years ago, James Fries (1) suggested that healthy lifestyle habits could result in a compression of morbidity. In this issue of the Journal, together with his colleagues, he provides evidence that healthy lifestyle habits postpone and reduce morbidity (2).Keywords
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