Cardiac care for older adults. Time for a new paradigm.

Recent decades have witnessed striking growth in the number of older adults both in the United States and throughout much of the world, largely due to improved public health, nutrition, and medical care. Between 2000 and 2030, the proportion of the world's population age 65 years and older is

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