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
So has the agency neglected the geriatric underground foundation on which it stands?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Dr Chatterjee also points to a wider gap in India's healthcare system: too few geriatric specialists, with many older people still relying on services not designed for their needs.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
And while it’s clear that she grappled constantly with his geriatric state, she tells us that it was never something that impaired his ability to function.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets: “serious, serious depression” and “manifesting as aggression, not uncommon in geriatric patients.”
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
It also had the fourth-best hospitals for geriatrics, according to WalletHub.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Among them is dementia, said Emily Finkelstein, a geriatrics provider at the New York-Presbyterian medical center.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
Only 10% of medical schools routinely require rotations in geriatrics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
Laura Mosqueda, a professor of family medicine and geriatrics at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, said the state’s findings “demonstrate many of the problems” that senior care advocates have long called on officials to address.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
She wore the insignia of a geriatrics supervisor.
From Life Sentence by Dick Francis
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