What is a geriatric person?

A geriatric is an elderly person.

Geriatrics is the study of medicine pertaining to the elderly.

Geriatrics is the medical specialty which focuses on the care and treatment of the elderly, usually patients who are 65 years of age or older. A physician who practices geriatrics is sometimes called a geriatrician. Geriatricians have trained as family practitioners or as internists initially. If a family practitioner or internist wishes to subspecialize in geriatrics, he or she may do so after completing an additional one or two years of fellowship training. Geriatricians may work in a hospital, hospice, medical office, nursing home, or in a combination of several of these medical facilities.