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American colleagues. Nascher may have been inspired by developments
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in upstate New York. Beginning in the late 1930s, as his wife's mental condition declined, Nascher cared for her with "devotion" and also kept notes, which he developed into his last published paper, "The Aging Mind." He continued their trips to
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is not due to any one cause" and that "disease is not (always) a causative or even an essential factor", views which are now widespread among gerontologists. A retrospective review of the book, published for its 100th anniversary in 2014, described its "pleasing, rambling tone," and noted
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hospital and subsequently opening his own practice. Nascher and his wife, Augusta Lanzit, were married in 1886. They had two children—Eugene, born 1887, and Ansel, born in 1890. Nascher was a lifelong
Democrat and attended every inauguration of a Democratic president between 1885
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prescient view of functional capacity. The reviewer compared the book (in relation to the field of gerontology) to a
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Geriatrics: The Diseases of Old Age and Their Treatment
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