According to Hippocrates, Old Age Had Five Substages

question 2

Multiple Choice

According to Hippocrates, old age had five substages. The second substage, 'Green', from 65 to 75, was described as:

• A) a person is gaining wisdom and maturity, yet also has reasonably good health and physical power.
• B) a person is beginning to show signs of physical decline but, ideally, can maintain activity while enjoying a certain social respect accorded to venerability.
• C) a period of senility and painful infirmity from which death provides a welcome relief.
• D) a person is definitely becoming physically frail and should begin to withdraw gracefully from social life.

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