Research on integrated traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine for geriatrics: Progress and reflections

The aging of the population has generated significant challenges and unprecedented opportunities for the development of geriatrics in China. The core idea of its overall concept, treatment according to syndrome differentiation and the characteristics of “preventive treatment of disease” have unique advantages, which are required to be explored and studied. This paper reviewed the development history of modern geriatrics in the west and China, analyzed and summarized the research hotspots in the field of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine for geriatrics in the past five years. It then described the current development status and advantages of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine in the treatment of common clinical geriatric diseases. Finally, it summarized and visioned the development of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine for geriatrics.