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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
geriatrics
noun
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▪ Here we may draw an analogy between geriatrics and paediatrics, another age-based medical specialism.
▪ In other areas geriatrics patients are defined by their need for rehabilitation and multi-disciplinary care.
▪ It was criticised as apparently unequal to all the needs of chronically sick children and helpless geriatrics.
▪ That fanciful world we return to, usually, when we become geriatrics.
▪ The middle-aged tended to become power-happy if they had geriatrics in the family.
▪ The specialisms of geriatrics and orthopaedic surgery have recorded the largest decreases in average length of stay.
▪ Urging managed care organizations to support faculties specializing in geriatrics in medical schools.
▪ When medical schools offered geriatrics as an elective, few students enrolled.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
geriatrics

coined 1909 by Austrian-born doctor Ignatz L. Nascher (1863-1944) in "New York Medical Journal" on the model of pediatrics (also see -ics), from the same elements found in geriatric (q.v.). The correct formation would be gerontiatrics.

Wiktionary
geriatrics

n. 1 (context medicine English) The branch of medicine that focuses on health promotion and the prevention and treatment of disease and disability in later life. The term itself can be distinguished from gerontology, which is the study of the aging process itself. 2 (plural of geriatric nodot=1 English)Category:English plurals; old people.

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geriatrics

n. the branch of medical science that deals with diseases and problems specific to old people [syn: gerontology]

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Geriatrics

Geriatrics or geriatric medicine is a specialty that focuses on health care of elderly people. It aims to promote health by preventing and treating diseases and disabilities in older adults. There is no set age at which patients may be under the care of a geriatrician or geriatric physician, a physician who specializes in the care of elderly people. Rather, this decision is determined by the individual patient's needs, and the availability of a specialist. It is important to note the difference between geriatrics, the care of aged people, and gerontology, which is the study of the aging process itself. The term geriatrics comes from the Greek γέρων geron meaning "old man", and ιατρός iatros meaning "healer". However, geriatrics is sometimes called medical gerontology.

Usage examples of "geriatrics".

Getting off again, we looked like a load of geriatrics as we stumbled off the tailgate and hobbled back to our rooms, dragging our sleeping bags along the ground.

Burnside and I, and most of these geriatrics, learned about not feeling sorry for yourself during grade school.

What with all the silent messages between ghosts and geriatrics, what I saw was wild and less than wonderful --like a Chinese fire drill -- the Greek airforce -- the Estonian navy.

He had not believed a word of the story until the following sunrise, when he had seen three fading geriatrics transformed into kids again.

Devlin was middle-aged, which, with modern geriatrics, might have meant anywhere from forty to seventy.

The appearance of age lay not so much in her baby-smooth skin, a dead giveaway of the most expensive sort of geriatrics regeneration, or even her obvious and extreme frailness, as in her mannerisms and behavior.