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...only 4.1% of the population were 65 or over; now these "senior citizens" account for 8.4%, and by 1980 they will make up 10% to 15% in a nation of about 225 million. But the boon has brought with it some perplexing problems-medical, social, economic. In Ann Arbor last week at the University of Michigan's annual Conference on Aging, the only such regular meeting in the country, 700 experts from the medical and social sciences put their heads (many greying) together to see what could be done in making Browning's vision a reality. The consensus...
...according to the most vocal experts at Ann Arbor, medicine is not yet ready to do its full part. Gerontology and geriatrics* have not grown up enough. Said Dr. Edmund Vincent Cowdry, anatomist at St. Louis' Washington University: "The emphasis is going off youth and going on age. Geriatrics is where pediatrics was 40 years ago. It has been the unwanted child. But grandmother must have her specialist, too. It took medicine centuries to discover that the infant is not just a little man, and to set up the specialty of pediatrics. It has taken longer for medicine...
...They Won't Tell Me Anything." Now, nine successful years away from those awkward summers in Vermont, Robin Roberts still turns for help to the man who polished him up for the Phillies. Last fall Roberts surprised his old coach by stopping off in Ann Arbor and asking permission to work out with the Michigan pitchers. Puzzled, Fisher said, "Sure." He watched Roberts throw a few. Fisher saw right away that the familiar three-quarters motion had been replaced by a sidearm delivery; Roberts was unconsciously favoring a sore arm. Fisher walked over. "Robby," he said...
MURIEL SCHOSTAK Ann Arbor, Mich...
Last week bigwig psychiatrists from across the U.S. converged on Ann Arbor to help dedicate a monument to the proposition that more can and must be done for such children: the Children's Psychiatric Unit at the University of Michigan Hospital. Though the six-story, yellow brick building was barely finished, 30-odd children from the ages of six to twelve had been moved in. The unit's capacity: 75. That is sizable for a children's mental hospital, though many thousands of children in the U.S. need psychiatric hospital care...