# Gerontology

Skill · Healthcare and Medical

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/gerontology

Gerontology is the multidisciplinary study of aging and older adults, covering the biological, psychological, and social aspects of growing old. Practitioners include researchers, healthcare workers, and social service professionals who work on issues like age-related disease, cognitive decline, elder care policy, and quality of life for seniors. It differs from geriatrics, which is the medical specialty focused specifically on treating diseases in older patients.

Related skills: [Public Health](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/public-health), [Social Work](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/social-work), [Geriatrics](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/geriatrics)

## Open roles requiring Gerontology (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.