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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

gérocomie

, fr. Gr. [GREEK] an old man + [GREEK] to take care of.]

That part of medicine which treats of regimen for old people.

Noun.

[Gr.] That part of medicine which treats of the proper regimen for old people.

gerocomy ‎(uncountable)

(rare) Medical treatment of the elderly.
- 1978, Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine, Routledge 1978, p. 261:
  Among the aristocracy of eighteenth-century Europe, recourse to what is now called gerocomy was in vogue, both in Paris and London, for the rehabilitation of the victims of old age.