the branch of health care concerned with the study, diagnosis, and sometimes treatment of mentally ill older people
Compare geriatrics
psychogeriatrics in American English
(ˌsaikouˌdʒɪəriˈætrɪks)
noun
(used with a sing v)
the psychology of old age
Derived forms
psychogeriatric
adjective
Word origin
[1965–70; psycho- + geriatrics]This word is first recorded in the period 1965–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Finlandization, T cell, genetic engineering, hired gun, overdubpsycho- is a combining form representing psyche (psychological) and psychological (psychoanalysis) in compound words. Other words that use the affix psycho- include: psycholinguistics, psychopathology, psychosomatic, psychotechnology, psychotronic