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gerontologist

American  
[jer-uhn-tahl-uhj-ist] / ˌdʒɛr ənˈtɑl ədʒ ɪst /

noun

  • gerontologists
    plural
  1. a specialist in or student of gerontology.


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“Our study wasn’t a prevalence study,” says Jason Karlawish, a gerontologist at the Penn Memory Center and senior principal investigator of the NIH study.

From Scientific American Jun. 12, 2023

All dentists can treat older adults, said Piedad Suarez, a USC professor, gerontologist and dentist.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2023

Nancy Rhine, a gerontologist and marriage and family therapist in Mill Valley, California, has helped about 40 older adults prepare for and process late-life rituals involving hours of retrospection and introspection, art and music.

From Seattle Times Oct. 21, 2022

That’s partly because ceremonies observed since antiquity don’t acknowledge the longevity of modern life, Jeanette Leardi, a social gerontologist and community educator in Portland, Ore., said.

From New York Times Aug. 1, 2022

Dr. Roy Walford, a well-respected medical research gerontologist who has been actively studying longevity for many years, is one of those.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Solomon, Steve

As gerontologists Sean Leng and Brian Kennedy put it, “Aging is the climate change of health care.”

From Slate Mar. 2, 2020

A trial by a group of gerontologists based at Boston University reported that 10% of supercentenarians made it to the final three months of their lives without being troubled by major age-related diseases.

From The Guardian Jan. 3, 2019

“If you took the research on what older adults need and what works well, and decided to create a new organization, villages would be very close to what academic gerontologists would create,” Graham said.

From Washington Times Jan. 1, 2019

These six people — from different boroughs, races and economic classes — belong to one of the fastest-growing age groups in America: people age 85 and over, whom gerontologists have called the oldest old.

From New York Times Jun. 5, 2015

Medical researchers and research gerontologists have noticed that many other vitamin and vitamin-like substances have similar effects on laboratory animals.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Solomon, Steve

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