老化と老年医学ジャーナル

Geriatric Psychiatry

Geriatric Psychiatry also called as geropsychiatry, psychogeriatrics or psychiatryof adulthood, could be a subspecialty of psychological medicine handling the study, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders in humans with old age. It emphasizes the biological and psychological aspects of traditional aging, the medicine result of acute and chronic physical health problem, and therefore the biological and psychosocial aspects of the pathology of primary medicine disturbances of older age. Geriatric psychiatrists specialise in hindrance, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of mental and emotional disorders within the older and improvement of medicine look after healthy and sick older patients.