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#201099 07/10/11 01:18 AM
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in practical terms, between gerontology and geriatrics? I have a friend who describes herself as a gerontologist; she treats the elderly--counsels them, that is, as part of a medical team. (She is a Ph.D., not an M.D.)

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Just an offering, but perhaps that is the difference.
One offers counseling and help of that nature, the other
medical.


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Luke is pretty right on. Geriatrics is all medical; gerontology is, according to AHD4, "[t]he scientific study of the biological, psychological, and sociological phenomena associated with old age and aging."

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Golly Day, thanks Faldage.
I volunteer, for the last ten years, in a home for retired
citizens, and it was just my observation, as I walked past
offices and read the titles of the occupants on the doors.
Glad to know I had made a good observation.


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