psychogeriatrics

psychogeriatrics
psy·cho·ge·ri·at·rics -.jer-ē-'a-triks, -.jir- n pl but sing in constr a branch of psychiatry concerned with behavioral and emotional disorders among the elderly
psy·cho·ge·ri·at·ric -trik adj

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n.
the branch of psychiatry that deals with the mental disorders of old people.
psychogeriatric adj.

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psy·cho·ger·i·at·rics (si″ko-jer″e-atґriks) geropsychiatry.

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