Age (Gerontology)

Age (Gerontology)

Table of Contents

Introduction1

Background2

Research Question3

Literature Review4

Analysis12

Recommendations13

Conclusion15

Age (Gerontology)

Introduction

Etymologically the word comes from the Greek word gerontology geron, gerontology / that is either the oldest or the most remarkable of the Greek people and the word logos lodge or treated by the group of experts. Etymologically gerontology refers to the discipline that deals with the study or knowledge of the oldest. It seems that the term gerontocracy, which was described in ancient Greece to the government controlled by the elderly, may have been the term precursor. The Spartans capitalized on the experience of the elderly. The Gerontes was a council of 28 men who spent 60 years and controlled the government of the city-state. (Birren, 1996)

In 1903, Michel Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916) Russian sociologist and biologist, Pasteur's successor and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1908, proposed to the science of gerontology is the study of aging, which he said "would bring great changes during this last period of life”. For its part, the term geriatrics was coined by Ignatrius Nascher in his work presented in 1907 at the Academy of Sciences New York entitled "geriatrics, diseases of the elderly and their treatment." This eminent American pediatrician and founder of the first department of geriatrics in the U.S. at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, explained in this publication, the term is also derived from the Greek Old and Iatrikos Geron= medical treatment. So while the year 1860-in which Abraham Jacobi gave the first class of Pediatrics, is an important dates, it is also 1909 for Geriatrics. Gerontology is concerned with the old (as an individual senior citizen), old age and aging. When it was set as an object of study the old, generally, they tend to focus on those who suffer from certain ailments, for this reason often gerontology is reduced to the study of aging deficit. Old age is a condition of the individual is a life stage: the last. Finally, aging is a long process that occurs, if seen from a broad perspective, from conception to death. (Ferraro, 1990)

Background

Although interest in the changes that occur with aging can be traced back to Aristotle, the systematic and scientific study is relatively new. The biology of aging has a recent history, practically started in this century. Indeed, one of the first studies published on the subject dates from 1904, when Mechnikov, Nobel Prize-contains a theory of aging and first introduced the term gerontology. Geriatrics: the diseases of old age and their treatment Gerontology. While the term first appears geriatrics in the United States in 1909, in the work of IL Birth, Geriatrics: the diseases of age old and their treatment. However, although both terms are born in an area eminently scientific, biological, today its meaning is much broader. Geriatrics and gerontology are often confused and used indiscriminately. Etymologically derived from old-age-appropriate Latin veclus, vetulusm, which in turn, is defined by a person of great age. So all these phenomena (old, old age and aging), in principle, they refer ...