Word: geriatrician
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then-90-year-old Calment $500 per month in return for her apartment after she died. Raffray died last year at the age of 77 after paying Calment more than $184,000 for a place he never lived in. His heirs kept up the payments. A geriatrician called Calment "the Michael Jordan of aging," adding that you or I have about as much chance of living to 122 as of playing in the NBA. Calment herself said there's no real secret. "I took pleasure when I could," she said at her 120 birthday party. "I acted clearly and morally...
...average man who lives to be that age can, according to actuarial tables, expect to live an additional 11 years and four months. Dole's health report shows him to be solidly above average for this stage of life. "It's remarkably unremarkable," says Dr. Mark Williams, 45, a geriatrician at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine who reviewed the information for Time. "I'd be happy to trade lab results with him right...
...Howard Fillit, a geriatrician at New York City's Mount Sinai Medical Center, has conducted small-scale tests of estrogen with women who have mild to moderate Alzheimer's. Patients who did not know the month or year could recall them after just three weeks on daily doses of hormones. The women became more alert, ate and slept better, and showed improved social behavior. Fillit believes testosterone therapy may prove equally useful for male patients. Estrogen is not yet an approved therapy for Alzheimer's, but as the evidence builds, it is fast becoming one of the brightest hopes...
True, of course, but 120 borders on the unnatural. It is at the uppermost limit of what biologists believe is the maximum human life-span. Calment, says Harvard geriatrician Dr. Thomas Perls, "is the Michael Jordan of aging," genetically blessed with extraordinary physical gifts that favor survival. "The chances of you or me getting to be her age are similar to our chances of playing basketball like Jordan." Only one other person is known to have lived as long: Shigechiyo Izumi of Japan, who died in 1986 at 120 years...
From the start, it seemed like a classic case of "grandpa dumping." Some stressed-out family member, experts conjectured, had suddenly broken under the pressure of caring for a confused and ailing spouse or parent. "It's shocking and terrible," says University of Chicago geriatrician Dr. Christine Cassel, "but it doesn't surprise me at all. The families of Alzheimer's patients sometimes just give up in despair." Such families have been known to drop their elderly charges off at hospital emergency rooms and then disappear. "It happens here probably once a month," says University of Chicago emergency- room physician...