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Older dogs benefit from developments in veterinary geriatric medicine.

By Randy Kidd, DVM, PhD

Aging is a natural process of all animals, and of all cells, tissues, and organs within the animal. Every individual animal ages at a different rate, and each type of tissue or organ system has its normal rate of proceeding through the aging process.

Today, we know a lot more about the conditions that beset older dogs, and how to prevent or at least reduce their effects. Start looking for signs of the most common old-age conditions when the dog is middle-aged; early treatment is the most effective.

Geriatrics is the branch of medicine that treats all problems peculiar to old age and aging, including the clinical problems of senescence (the process or condition of growing old, especially the conditions resulting from the transitions and accumulations of the deleterious effects of the aging process) and senility (the physical and mental deterioration associated with old age). …

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