Ageing

Process of deformation in the functional capacity of a person occurring after maturity.

Age related diseases (ARD) are the diseases which occur normally with the advancing age and to be more suffice ARD are age and life style related diseases. Aging creeps on at a snails pace in the beginning but gathers momentum in the middle age.If healthy life styles are violated the speed of ageing becomes faster.

Two factors have necessitated to treat ARD more vigoursely:

1. Average age of man is increasing because of better preventive and curative health services and the number of aged is also increasing accordingly.

The following are raw notes taken from the diary of Dr H S Gill that He used to write in His spare time, whenever He used to get some out of His extremely busy workload. The Foundation would like to publish these as they offer some deep insights yet light and interesting reading.