Gerontologist

The gerontologist and scientific provocateur Aubrey de Grey claims that the first humans to live for 1,000 years may already have been born. ❋ Sonia Arrison (2011)

In countries where women's life expectancies are particularly high, women never smoked as much as men, said gerontologist Eileen Crimmins of the University of Southern California, who co-chaired the report. ❋ AP (2011)

Amen, says Diane Persson, a gerontologist who has written about the boom in younger nursing home residents. ❋ AP (2011)

Some of them include Kai Sera Sera, No Snow, Parrot-ise and, as a gerontologist this is my favorite, Legasea. ❋ Dr. Caroline Cicero (2011)

“Hearing loss plays a part as well,” says Dr. Michael Adams, a gerontologist. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

Rosemary Bakker of Weill Cornell Medical College is an interior designer and gerontologist. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In their 2008 analysis, gerontologist Steven A. Wallace of the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues demonstrated that nearly half -- 47 percent -- of seniors in the Golden State are impoverished or struggling to make ends meet. ❋ Paul Kleyman (2011)

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. (2011)

It took a trip to the emergency room to set this gerontologist on the fitness path. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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 (2011)