Definitions
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- noun A
physician who specializes ingerontology
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- noun a specialist in gerontology
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Examples
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Rosemary Bakker of Weill Cornell Medical College is an interior designer and gerontologist.
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Rosemary Bakker of Weill Cornell Medical College is an interior designer and gerontologist.
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Amen, says Diane Persson, a gerontologist who has written about the boom in younger nursing home residents.
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"There's no guarantee that they're going to be there for that child," says Gregory Smith, a gerontologist and developmental psychologist at Kent State University in Ohio.
More grandparents taking on a second round of parenting 2011
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Amen, says Diane Persson, a gerontologist who has written about the boom in younger nursing home residents.
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If I step outside my role as a gerontologist and put on my psychologist's hat, it's pretty obvious to me that gerontophobia (the fear of aging and discomfort with the elderly) -- and ageism (a set of beliefs used to justify age-based prejudice) still permeate every facet of our culture.
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D.: S&P Decided Your Aging Parents Are Destroying America: Is That OK With You? Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. 2011
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If I step outside my role as a gerontologist and put on my psychologist's hat, it's pretty obvious to me that gerontophobia (the fear of aging and discomfort with the elderly) -- and ageism (a set of beliefs used to justify age-based prejudice) still permeate every facet of our culture.
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D.: S&P Decided Your Aging Parents Are Destroying America: Is That OK With You? Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. 2011
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If I step outside my role as a gerontologist and put on my psychologist's hat, it's pretty obvious to me that gerontophobia (the fear of aging and discomfort with the elderly) -- and ageism (a set of beliefs used to justify age-based prejudice) still permeate every facet of our culture.
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D.: S&P Decided Your Aging Parents Are Destroying America: Is That OK With You? Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. 2011
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If I step outside my role as a gerontologist and put on my psychologist's hat, it's pretty obvious to me that gerontophobia (the fear of aging and discomfort with the elderly) -- and ageism (a set of beliefs used to justify age-based prejudice) still permeate every facet of our culture.
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D.: S&P Decided Your Aging Parents Are Destroying America: Is That OK With You? Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. 2011
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Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, PhD, the organizer of the conference, even claimed that science was advancing at such a pace that some children born today might live for several centuries.
Maria Rodale: Seven Mindful Steps That Will Double Your Life Expectancy Maria Rodale 2011
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