SUBFIELD OF GERONTOLOGY Flashcards
(32 cards)
Attempts to understand how ageing leads to the disease of aging.
Medicine
Work directly with older individuals.
They may provide help with day-to-day activities such as meal preparation transportation and even just nice conversation.
Gerontologist
What are the subfield of gerontology
Geriatric
Financial gerontology
Social gerontology
Geropsychology
Geropharmacology
Gerontological nursing
Gerontological rehabilitation nursing
The study of the aging process and problems that elderly individuals might encounter. Professionals in this field typically study and find ways to treat physical mental emotional and social problems.
Gerontology
Studies difference in aging across different species
Comparative biology
Research into relationship between biological aging and age-related disease at the molecular level.
Geroscience
Study the rule of genes in aging and try to identify which genes are relevant.
Genetic
Attempts to explain the phenomenon of ageing and death in the context of evolution.
Evolutionary biology
Research what actually happens in the body during aging at cellular level
Biochemistry
The canon of medicine in 1025 offered instruction for the care of the aged including diet and remedies for problems including constipation.
Avicenna’s
Arabic physician who wrote on the aches and condition of the elderly.
His scholarly work covers sleep disorder, forgetfulness, how to strengthen memory and causes of mortality.
Ibn Al-Jazzar Al-Qayrawani
A medical care of older adults.
It aims to promote health by preventing and treating disease and disabilities in older adults.
Geriatric
Coined the term gerontology in 1903
Elie Metchnikoff
Who himself lived to be 102, believe that aging itself should be a science to be studied.
Michel Eugene Chevreul
Who wrote works on the treatments for forgetfulness.
Ishaq Ibn Hunayn
Who began organizing gerontology as its own field in the 1940
James Birren
Focuses on legal and ethical issue associated with aging.
Elder Law
The term geriatric comes from the greek “geron” meaning?
Old man
“Iatros” means?
Healer
Is multidisciplinary, building on relevant teaching from biology, psychology, sociology, and demography to understand the lifelong wealth span issue and aspirations of aging individuals and their families.
Financial Gerontology
It is the subfield of gerontology that deals with biological aspect of aging.
Aims to prevent age related disease by intervening in aging processes or even eliminate aging per se.
Biogerontology
Also known as experimental gerontology, is a sub-discipline of biogerontology that and divorce to slow, prevent, and even revised aging in both humans and animals
Biomedical Gerontology
Geriatrics is sometimes called?
Medical Gerontology
Focuses on the social aspect of growing old.
It is a multidisciplinary subfield that specialize in studying or working with older adult
Social gerontology
