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	Gerontology is study of aging whereas geriatrics is the branch of medicine that studies diseases of the old people. Gerontology covers the biological, psychological and social and aspects of aging. Gerontology includes examining social, physical and mental changes in people as they age, biogerontology investigates the aging process itself. In examining problems in aging, it also investigates the effects of aging population on society, including the fiscal effects of life and health insurance, entitlements, pensions and retirement planning. They apply this knowledge to policies and programs, including a macroscopic (government planning) and microscopic (running a nursing home) perspective.
The focus of gerontology is so multidisciplinary that there are a number of sub-fields, as well as fields such as psychology and sociology that overlap with gerontology. But they still remain distinctive. Though gerontology was developed late, the massive increase in the elderly population in the post-industrial Western nations has led to it becoming one of the most rapidly growing fields. Gerontology is also considered as a well paying field for many in the West. Gerontology studies all the undeniable facts about aging. Biogerontology research helps in coping with aging difficulties and helps in healthy aging and is the subfield of gerontology dedicated to studying the biological processes involved in aging. Biomedical gerontology also known as experimental gerontology and life extension, is a subdiscipline of biogerontology, that endeavors to slow, prevent, and even reverse aging in both humans and animals. Curing age-related diseases is one approach, and slowing down the underlying processes of aging is another. Life extensionists believe the human life span can be altered within the next century, if not sooner. 'Optimists' have predicted a changing human life span, though this has not yet been demonstrated. Because issues of life span and life extension need numbers to quantify them, there is an overlap with demography. Those that study the demography of the human life span are different than those that study the social demographics of aging (see 'social gerontology').


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