Geography Optional 300+ Score Pack · Model answer
What are Geriatrics? What are the problems associated with Geriatric population?
- UPSC 2013
- Population and Settlement Geography
Geriatrics is the branch of medicine concerned with the health, diseases and care of aged persons, and is distinguished from gerontology, the broader multi-disciplinary study of ageing as a biological, social and spatial process; geography enters through geographical gerontology, pioneered by Graham Rowles (1978).
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- Magnitude: A Cohort Doubling Its Share by Mid-Century
- Economic Insecurity: Old-Age Poverty and Thin Pension Cover
- Health: Chronic Morbidity Against Absent Geriatric Infrastructure
- Social and Psychological Erosion
- The Gendered and Spatial Geography of Ageing
- Feminisation of Ageing
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