my name is ekaterina bretskaya. hello. you are watching a project of science addiction in the next half an hour miss. from medical research to medical wards. what is the fundamental difference between gerontology and geriatrics, if you do not stop, then at least slow down, is it real, if we are talking about the aging process, and why in 50% of cases the elderly are misdiagnosed, we will find out very soon. so gerontology and geriatrics are consonant, but different concepts, and i propose to understand the terminology right now. with the development of science and medicine, the average life of a person has noticeably increased, the accumulated knowledge, scientists have combined into the science of gerontology, which comprehensively studies old age, today there are several areas. gerontology, biological doctors explore the features of the life processes of the elderly , the medical direction studies pathologies and diseases characteristic only for the elderly, the psychological one, which studies changes in the psyche with