geriatrics

/ˈdʒɛriˌætrɪks/

If you become a doctor who specializes in geriatrics, your patients will mainly be elderly people.

The medical branch of geriatrics focuses on the health issues and diseases of old age. A doctor who specializes in this kind of medicine might be called a geriatric physician or a geriatrician. Geriatrics was originally based on the word pediatrics, the medical care of children, and comes from the Greek geron, which means "old age" or "old man."

Definitions of geriatrics

1. noun

   the branch of medical science that deals with diseases and problems specific to old people
   synonyms: gerontology

   type of:

   medical specialty, medicine

   the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques