Resuming in a few words the clinical nature of the elder patient, it can be said that he is a person of whose enormous functional reserves during his development and maturity are in great measure lost. In spite of the reduced reserves, most of the systems continue to work pretty exact although in a considerably slowed rhythm. Rarely does it require prohibiting the elder from doing some activities. The condition is that the activities that he develops should not necessitate strength or unusual agility. The only necessary limit at this affirmation is that the elder should be warned that many activities request from now on more time to execute and he should be encouraged to accept this thing and not try to rush.
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