Definitions for geriatric
ˌdʒɛr iˈæ trɪk, ˌdʒɪər-geri·atric

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. geriatricadjective

   of or relating to the aged

   "geriatric disorder"

2. geriatric, gerontologicaladjective

   of or relating to or practicing geriatrics

   "geriatric hospital"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. geriatricnoun

   An old person.

2. geriatricadjective

   Of or pertaining to the elderly.

3. geriatricadjective

   Of or pertaining to geriatrics.

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1. geriatric

   Geriatrics, or geriatric medicine, is a medical specialty focused on providing care for the unique health needs of older adults. The term geriatrics originates from the Greek γέρων geron meaning "old man", and ιατρός iatros meaning "healer". It aims to promote health by preventing, diagnosing and treating disease in older adults. There is no defined age at which patients may be under the care of a geriatrician, or geriatric physician, a physician who specializes in the care of elderly people. Rather, this decision is guided by individual patient need and the caregiving structures available to them. This care may benefit those who are managing multiple chronic conditions or experiencing significant age-related complications that threaten quality of daily life. Geriatric care may be indicated if caregiving responsibilities become increasingly stressful or medically complex for family and caregivers to manage independently.There is a distinction between geriatrics and gerontology. Gerontology is the multidisciplinary study of the aging process, defined as the decline in organ function over time in the absence of injury, illness, environmental risks or behavioral risk factors. However, geriatrics is sometimes called medical gerontology.

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1. geriatric

   Geriatric refers to the branch of medicine or social sciences dealing with the health, wellness, and care of elderly adults, typically those over the age of 65. It is also used as an adjective to describe anything related to gerontology, old age, or the aging process.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of geriatric in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of geriatric in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of geriatric in a Sentence

1. Katherine Raymond:

   It was difficult to determine a treatment plan because most people who have this cancer are geriatric and Fionah was just a baby, it is horrible to watch your baby go through chemo. Nothing prepares you for that. The radiation therapy leaves them with burns. She cried all the time. It was so hard on her.

2. Scott Dixon:

   I was joking it was the geriatric podium.

3. Harold Macmillan:

   Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

4. Xinye Qiu:

   Late-life depression should be a geriatric issue that the public and researchers need to be paying more attention to, like on a similar level with Alzheimer’s and other neurological conditions.

5. Douglas Scharre:

   I spend a lot of my time in the memory disorder clinic seeing geriatric patients and taking people off medications, mostly ones that have anticholinergic properties, and many times there can be another drug out there that has less anticholinergic impact or is non-anticholinergic that may work, some of the medications that they list in the study may be quite critical and important and are well worth the person taking for their seizures or their psychosis, and so it's a risk-benefit discussion.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=geriatric
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Geriatric
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geriatric
4. ^ ChatGPT
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