Palliative Care, Medicine and Hospice Nursing

Gerontology and Geriatric Palliative Care

Geriatrics is the field that deals with health care of elderly people. Physicians with an attention on geriatrics work to assist older patients with the physical changes their bodies’ involvement as they age. Gerontology is the scientific study of aging as a physical, cultural and social process. The study is often academic, including specialists in various, multidisciplinary fields. In any case, gerontology and geriatrics have various vital contrasts in how gerontologists and geriatricians approach the elderly and how they at last add to the field of elder study and care. The major obstacles for elderly patients can be fast change in mental status, acute pain, uncertain symptoms, decrease of wellbeing, Dehydration, Anorexia, strange medical reactions.