Also called geropsychiatry; an American board of psychiatry and neurology (ABPN) subspecialty of psychiatry that focuses on the prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of mental and emotional disorders in the elderly, as well as improvement of psychiatric care for healthy and ill elderly people.
A branch of psychiatry concerned with the psychological aspects of the aging process and mental disorders of the aged.
The medical specialty concerned with psychiatric conditions of older persons, geriopsychiatry; psychiatrist.