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Why aging shouldn’t be classified as a disease

By Ahmed Al-Juhany, PhD Candidate, University of Calgary

In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases — a global, standard-setting guideline for how institutions should understand and organize health information. In it was a new diagnostic category for symptoms and signs of disease: “old age.”

The new category sparked outrage and, in 2021, the

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