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gerontology and geriatrics

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gerontology and geriatrics

Scientific and medical disciplines, respectively, concerned with all aspects of health and disease in the elderly and with the normal aging process. Gerontology is concerned primarily with the changes that occur between maturity and death and with the factors that influence these changes. It addresses the social and economic effects of an aging population and the physiological and psychological aspects of aging to learn about the aging process and possibly minimize disabilities. Geriatrics deals with prevention and treatment of diseases once assumed to be inevitable in the elderly. See also aging.
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Archives Gerontology and Geriatrics Supplement, 1,151-163.
Memory self-efficacy and memory performance in older males by Kang, Jeonghee / International Journal of Men's Health
; Argentine Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics and the International Association of Gerontology (NA & LA Committee); Buenos Aires; Email panamericano@sion.
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Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics 1996;16:62.
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