geriatric
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This time around, I was already in geriatric pregnancy territory, and I wasn’t getting any younger.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
It began with a geriatric black-Lab mix who’d been picked up as a stray and locked in a cage at the South Los Angeles animal shelter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Three decades of work as a geriatric psychiatrist have shown me that even as we are better at diagnosis and treatment, medicine is outpacing the educational, social and financial side of Alzheimer’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
The near-total dominance of a trio of weak albums is a sign of a geriatric culture with no interest in slowing its decline.
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
These days it was popular only with the geriatric crowd, but this didn’t bother me.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
Among them is dementia, said Emily Finkelstein, a geriatrics provider at the New York-Presbyterian medical center.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
In March 2023, Schmidt met with George Hennawi, the MedStar system’s physician executive director of geriatrics and senior services, as well as others, including a pharmacist who went through her medications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
But some people do opt for testing which is outside standard age-based guidelines, says Dr Carla Perissinotto, a geriatrics specialist at the University of California San Francisco.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
Fried, the Yale School of Medicine physician, works in geriatrics, and it weighs heavily on her mind whether her older patients are truly absorbing the medical information they need to know.
From Slate ● May 2, 2025
She wore the insignia of a geriatrics supervisor.
From Life Sentence by Dick Francis
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