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What Is Clinical Aging? A Geriatric Perspective on Health

While chronological age measures the time since birth, a 2018 AAFP article noted that individuals with complex chronic conditions are increasingly evaluated through a holistic lens. This is the essence of **what is clinical aging**: the medical assessment of a person's physiological function and overall health status, rather than a simple number.

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