geriatric

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geriatric is frequently found in medical contexts to mean "elderly" or "old", as in "an ever-increasing number of geriatric patients" and "a shortage of geriatric wards". In such contexts geriatric is not used in a belittling or derogatory way, geriatrics being the name given to the branch of medicine concerned with the health and diseases of elderly people. However, geriatric is often used in the general language to refer to old people in a derogatory or scornful way, as in "geriatric shoppers getting in the way" or "geriatric drivers holding up the traffic".