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Descriptor English: Integrative Geriatrics
Descriptor Spanish: Geriatria Integrativa
Descriptor geriatría integrativa
Scope note: Inclusión de prácticas integrativas en la atención geriátrica.
Descriptor Portuguese: Geriatria Integrativa
Descriptor French: Gériatrie intégrative
Tree number(s): MT4.353
Scope note: Integrative geriatrics is based on lifestyle interventions, such as nutrition, movement therapies, and mind-body and spirituality approaches, which allow older people to have a different path to their health care, one that uses products pharmaceuticals and invasive procedures only when safer integrative approaches are not available or effective.
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
DeCS ID: 59947
Unique ID: DDCS059947
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Date of Entry: 2022/03/25
Integrative Geriatrics - Preferred
Concept UI FD00066531
Scope note Integrative geriatrics is based on lifestyle interventions, such as nutrition, movement therapies, and mind-body and spirituality approaches, which allow older people to have a different path to their health care, one that uses products pharmaceuticals and invasive procedures only when safer integrative approaches are not available or effective.
Preferred term Integrative Geriatrics



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