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Aging and Injury | Aging Matters | NPT
Experts say our bodies begin to slowly decline after age 30, but there are strategies to lessen the impact of those changes and lower the risk of hospitalization due to injury. Vanderbilt School of Nursing’s Dr. Cathy Maxwell studies how age-related changes contribute to the risk of injury as well as strategies for healthy aging to lower that risk in this edition of NPT Reports: Aging Matters.
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