What are geriatrics and gerontology?

Gerontology is the science that studies the aging processes, taking wider vision at the present time, distinguishing - if in multidiciplinary work that get tied up to the problems related to the elderly.

Looking for the good to be bio-psico-social is usually the common denominator of the team of reach of wide inclusion intermixing several categories of professionals linked the area of health such an as psychologists, nutritionists, occupational therapists, physical education teachers, dentists.

The geriatrics is defined as the medical specialty that is devoted to take care of the senior individual, developing a prevention aspect more recently, and standing out mainly in the focus of the ordination of the consumed medicines.

It is a new specialty appeared in France after the 2nd world war to do front to the needs of the elderlys' service that started to be proportionally a great contingent of the population, because the youngest group had been exterminated in battlefields.

With the change of the demographic profile of the developing countries, a number every time larger of people reaches more advanced age, doing necessary the creation of a number every time larger of integrated beds of geriatrics and gerontology.