The relationship of Gerontology and podiatrists
Thursday, February 4th, 2010The discipline that is concerned with the study of aging and its impact on the individual and society is the Gerontology. Podiatrists are most concerned with it for the reason that there are a large number of people with foot problems that are in the older age groups. Podiatrists need to be aware of the issues that those in this age group so they can better manage the foot problems in these wider social and psychological contexts of aging. In Geriatrics it is more concerned with the medial problems of older people. With geriatrics is what podiatrists need to be familiar as many of the foot problems treated by them, because older person is mostly affected with many foot problems