gerontological love

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to gerontology.

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  • adjective of or relating to or practicing geriatrics

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Examples

  • And Sarkozy is definitely a funny spokesman, since his margin of victory came from Le Penists and gerontological pieds noirs.

    Matthew Yglesias » Sarkozy: Freedom as Self-Determination 2009

  • My therapist was a gerontological psychiatrist (it was the luck of the draw … she was the only person able to take a patient at the time) so I was by far the youngest person she saw.

    PhotoHunter: Broken « Mudpuddle 2010

  • As a nouveau septuagenarian, I arguably had a vested interest in gerontological issues.

    The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns Alan C. Greenberg 2010

  • As a nouveau septuagenarian, I arguably had a vested interest in gerontological issues.

    The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns Alan C. Greenberg 2010

  • It opposes the right of those institutions to shape you simply because of accreted power or gerontological status.

    Three notes for the critics of the critics of apologists for Wal-Mart 2009

  • If both occur, as gerontological optimists predict, the number of old will skyrocket, as will the cost of maintaining them.

    The Coming Death Shortage 2005

  • If both occur, as gerontological optimists predict, the number of old will skyrocket, as will the cost of maintaining them.

    The Coming Death Shortage 2005

  • Rebecca Johnson, a professor of gerontological nursing at the University of Missouri, Columbia, showed that interaction with pets does, in fact, reduce levels of the stress hormone cortisol.

    15 Ways To Live Longer Vanessa Gisquet 2006

  • Beneath a work of art depicting Moses holding the tablet on which was written the Ten Commandments, the gerontological oligarchy that now runs this country was hearing oral arguments as to whether the displaying of those same commandments on public property was against the law.

    From On High 2005

  • It was put out God knows when (25 years, estimate) by a group of anthropologists who study gerontology (I almost said “gerontological anthropologists” but that would be misleading).

    Another Visit to the Grand Canyon - The Panda's Thumb 2005

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