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1. The article ends with a question: ” In what ways are the elderly better off today than they were before Nascher’s ideas gained acceptance?” Do you believe that the elderly are better off today than they were before Nascher’s ideas gained acceptance? Explain your answer.
2. How many relatives do you have who are over the age of 75? Are they active? Inactive? Healthy? Do you enjoy spending time with them? Explain your answer.
Dr. Ignatz Nascher and the Birth of Geriatrics
In the early 1900s, a New York physician named Dr. Ignatz Nascher coined the term geriatrics, a medical specialty that focuses on the elderly. He created the word by combining two Greek words: geron (old man) and iatrikos (medical treatment). Nascher based his work on what he observed as a young medical student, when he saw many acutely ill elderly people who were diagnosed simply as “being old.” There was nothing medicine could do, his professors declared, about the syndrome of “old age.”
Nascher refused to accept this dismissive view, seeing it as medical neglect. He believed it was a doctor’s duty to prolong life and relieve suffering whenever possible. In 1914, he published his views in his book Geriatrics: The Diseases of Old Age and Their Treatment (Clarfield 1990). Nascher saw the practice of caring for the elderly as separate from the practice of caring for the young, just as pediatrics (caring for children) is different from caring for grown adults (Clarfield 1990).
Nascher had high hopes for his pioneering work. He wanted to treat the aging, especially those who were poor and had no one to care for them. Many of the elderly poor were sent to live in “almshouses,” or public old-age homes (Cole 1993). Conditions were often terrible in these almshouses, where the aging were often sent and just forgotten.
As hard as it might be to believe today, Nascher’s approach was once considered unique. At the time of his death, in 1944, he was disappointed that the field of geriatrics had not made greater strides. In what ways are the elderly better off today than they were before Nascher’s ideas gained acceptance?
 
Write between 200-250 words each answer.
Questions: 
1. The article ends with a question: ” In what ways are the elderly better off today than they were before Nascher’s ideas gained acceptance?”  Do you believe that the elderly are better off today than they were before Nascher’s ideas gained acceptance?  Explain your answer.
2. How many relatives do you have who are over the age of 75?  Are they active? Inactive? Healthy?  Do you enjoy spending time with them? Explain your answer.