Le choix d'une approche, le destin d'un mot, le sens d'une question : gérontopsychiatrie ou psychogériatrie ?

Geriatric psychiatry or psychiatry of old age is a subspecialty of psychiatry dealing with the study, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders in humans with old age. These subspeciality is also known as geropsychiatry, or psychogeriatrics. The diagnosis, treatment and management of dementia is one area of this field. This double definition includes a systemic pact gathering all the formal caregivers in their usual approach. Discovering the late psychic univers need to pratice a way of caring matching with the personality of old persons. For this reason, the question of the double definition is related with our way to cope with patients' life history, from an external point of view, medical and carers, or internal, medicopsychologic.