Word: gerontologist
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...With senior citizens increasingly living away from family and a nationwide shortage of nursing homes, many are now living alone. "There is a kind of myth that older people in Japan are living in three-generational families, but that's not so anymore," says Takako Sodei, a gerontologist with Ochanomizu University in Tokyo. (See pictures of Japan in the 1980s and today...
...Carson said Friday afternoon after an appointment at the health center. Carson, who has been a patient at the health center for the past decade, spoke against its closing at a meeting in October, calling the move “disgusting.” But she praised the gerontologist who will care for her at another CHA clinic, the Riverside Health Center, and said she did not think that the change would cause her too much inconvenience. Bruce Sylvester, a former staffer at Harvard Law School, said that the health center closing leaves him “very...
Harvard Medical School professor Douglas P. Kiel is facing a lawsuit because of an article he published in the July 2007 issue of the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA). In the study, Kiel, a gerontologist, said that hip protectors are not effective in preventing injuries among elderly patients, a claim challenged by HipSaver, a popular hip protector manufacturer, in a suit filed in Norfolk Superior Court on Feb. 15. Representatives for HipSaver accuse Kiel of deliberately using one particular type of hip protector that is inferior to many of the protectors on the market and concluding that all hip protectors...
...insurance companies over two decades), Andres has concluded that people in their 20s should weigh less than Metropolitan Life indicates, 40-year-olds should weigh about the same, but people in their 50s and 60s can afford to be anywhere from 4 to 37 Ibs. heavier. Andres, a gerontologist who has been studying the effect of weight gain on aging for more than five years, feels that after the age of 20, almost any normally lean person can put on about a pound a year...
...neither a journalist nor a gerontologist, but a writer and a cultural critic who studies age issues. I call myself an age critic, and I wish there were thousands more of us,” Gullette said. She spoke to the Lowell House Senior Common Room this past Friday about her most recent book, Aged by Culture...