Associations to the word «Geriatrics»

Wiktionary

GERIATRICS, noun. (medicine) 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.
GERIATRICS, noun. Plural of geriatric

Dictionary definition

GERIATRICS, noun. The branch of medical science that deals with diseases and problems specific to old people.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin