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Death in older persons is secondary to a specific disease entity, not old age itself. Consequently, the search for the cause of the disease in the older person becomes important. However, research reflected in clinical practice creates and faces many problems. Diseases will have a different “natural” history. There will be changes in the nature of medical practice and this in turn will cause a change in medical training. The role of the physician will change. He will emerge as an educator, decision maker, and family counselor with computers to aid him. The prolongation of life will present to us a new variety of social and economic problems. The treatment of elderly psychiatric patients will include occupational, recreational, and social programs of care. Research studies are helping the physician to better understand the complexities of the elderly patient's response to symptoms and to stress. Research into the relationship between RNA and learning will help understand brain function. Finally, the author discusses some of the implications of studies of newer techniques to deal with the families of the dying and the dead.
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