DIAGRAM :: Individual Aging Process

Lee B. Maxey, found in Mary Opal Wolanin and Linda Ree Fraelich Phillips, Confusion: Prevention and Care, C. V. Mosby Company, 1981

INDIVIDUAL AGING PROCESS

Physical growth continues to somewhere around the age of 24 or 25. At this point in time body cells cease to replace themselves at the same rate at which they are dying, and we begin to die, or age. The process continues until our death and affects all body systems. This is the natural organic growth process, and it is with this process that the medical profession has been primarily concerned.

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