검색어: they pester, i fester (영어 - 포르투갈어)

illness in the sense of impaired psychic well-being has taken on for many old people an almost mystical dimension; they pester their doctor with an obscure ache which seems to have no name; and is perhaps a loss of meaning and purpose". (stevenson, 1986)
as mulheres que passaram a menopausa estão muito mais expostas do que os homens à osteoporose: no reino unido, 25% das mulheres com 60 anos sofrem desta doença, aumentando para 50% quando têm mais de 70 anos.