Word: gerontologist
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...Comfort, a gerontologist and author of two previous books on aging, the chief disability of old age is agism itself. "Most of the handicaps of oldness in our society are social, conventional and imaginary. The physical changes are trifling by comparison." Because of "redneck bigotry" and "the steady drip of misinformation," the elderly are patronized, overmedicated and arbitrarily excluded from any significant social roles...
...that has flourished for years in the U.S.S.R. is about to be debunked, and by no less an authority than the eminent Russian-born biologist and student of aging, Zhores A. Medvedev. Exiled and working in London, Medvedev, 48, has written an article for an upcoming issue of the Gerontologist in which he systematically destroys the myth of the supercentenarians, not only in the Soviet Union but also in Kashmir and Ecuador. "The trouble is that many scientists have taken for granted that these old people are telling the truth, and then they try to find some reasons to explain...
...forced-labor camps, and confined them to prison mental institutions. Their most recent method appears to be a kind of involuntary exile: they allow a dissenter to travel abroad and then snatch away his passport. Last week, after eight months of research in Britain, Zhores Medvedev, a geneticist and gerontologist of international reputation, was called to the Soviet embassy in London where his passport was revoked and he was told that he was no longer a Soviet citizen...
...income of any kind. "What we need," says Dr. Sadamu Watanabe, "is a sweeping reform that makes it mandatory for the government to provide all old people with an adequate livelihood through their declining years." Watanabe should know better than anyone. At 80 he is Japan's leading gerontologist...
...Soviet citizen who has suffered such treatment is the prominent geneticist and gerontologist Zhores Medvedev, 46, a leading spokesman for the "loyal opposition" within the Russian intelligentsia. Last year he was forced to spend 19 days in a madhouse for a condition diagnosed as "split personality, expressed in the need to combine the scientific work in his field with publicist activities; an overestimation of his own personality; a deterioration in recent years of the quality of his scientific work; an exaggerated attention to detail in his publicist writing; lack of a sense of reality; poor adaptation to the social environment...