Geriatrics A New Horizon in the Medical Sciences
Journal Title: Journal of the Indian Medical Association - Year 2019, Vol 117, Issue 2
Abstract
The term Geriatrics a Greek word is a combination of Geron means Old man and Iatros means Heaven. Hence Geriatrics or Geriatric medicine or medical Gerontology in a speciality that takes care of the health of elderly people; and the physicians who got specialised in this subject are called Geriatrician or Geriatric physicians. Man born to die, crossing the different stages in life journey like baby crawls to child, child jumps as boy who becomes young in time to reach the stage of pre old then old and ultimately very old one. With the progress of civilisation and advent of modern medical facilities, consciousness of the humanity regarding food and life style, life expectancy throughout the world in increased to the maximum and still increasing. People in Minnesota live the longest in United States average 78.7 years and the oldest verified man in the world Massazo Nonoka of Japan is of 113 years old but he left us for heavenly abode a few months back.
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Dr Golokbihari Maji
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