Teng Kuang-jei offers a startling statistic: Of elderly patients seen at the psychiatric clinic of Veterans General Hospital, 37.4 % have had more than three diseases. When you add it all up, on the average each person over sixty-five years old has 4.7 major or minor illnesses.
鄧光銳得到過一個驚人的調查數據：在來榮總老年精神科門診的病患中，有百分之卅七已有三種以上的身體疾病，若再加上精神疾病，則平均每位老年病患有四．七種大大小小的病！