Ageing is the process during which structural and functional changes accumulate in an organism as a result of the passage of time. The changes manifest as a decline from the organism’s peak ...

There was no consensus on whether aging is a disease or not and respondents did not even agree on the question of whether the field ought to have a single consensus definition of aging.

This means that the dilemma of imprecise definition persists. The definition of age has been the subject of academic discussion for years and urgently requires clarification and agreement.