Who are you calling elderly?
I still hold out for age, even if it is fuzzy.
Ed
Gerard Freriks <gfrer at luna.nl>@openehr.org on 01/31/2005 04:25:17 PM
Please respond to Gerard Freriks <gfrer at luna.nl>
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To: William E Hammond <hammo001 at mc.duke.edu>
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Subject: Re: Age
Dear all,
It is fine for me when we can agree that we mean by 'Age' time after
birth.
How will we name and define concepts like: youth, post conception, post
gestation, middel aged, elderly?
Gerard
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On 31 Jan 2005, at 19:10, William E Hammond wrote:
> For an age, I agree that the date of birth is adequate as long as you
> remember people do not age after they die. It is also convenient to
> have a
> reference time mark for many things, including conception, start of a
> course of treatment. Adjectives and nouns are difficult to put into
> algorithms unless the definitions are precise.
>
> Ed Hammond
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