Handbook of GerontologyAbout This Hardback Gerontology is characterized as the scientific study of the phenomena of aging. The goal of gerontology is to trace the changes that take place in a cell, a tissue, an organ system, a group of organisms with the passage of time. Some of the common fields that fall under this domain are biogerontology, social gerontology, environmental gerontology, and jurisprudential gerontology. Gerontology utilizes the methodologies of many other