[Gero-hygienics: topical chances of primary-preventive geriatrics (author's transl)]

The present endeavour of geriatrics emphasizes systematic preventive actions before the appearance of a diseased state. Epidemiological studies demand the regard of risk-factors into the therapeutical conception. Public health work on the one side and health-education and health-training otherwise are fundamental conditions for all practical possibilities of the modern preventive geriatrics.