as in elderly
being of advanced years and especially past middle age
went into nursing to work with geriatric patients
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as in elder
a person of advanced years
most of the clinic's outpatients are geriatrics living on fixed incomes
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Recent Examples of geriatric
Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2024
If your parent remains resistant, consider involving a professional, such as an elder law attorney, financial planner, or geriatric care manager.
—Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
In almost all medical schools, pediatrics training is mandatory, while training in geriatrics can be hard for medical students to find.
—Sara Zeff Geber, Phd, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
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Adjective
But how the persona’s geriatric nature maps so perfectly onto Redmayne’s underlying qualities is what sells the package so well.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2024
If your parent remains resistant, consider involving a professional, such as an elder law attorney, financial planner, or geriatric care manager.
—Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Salamon and her sister Suzanne, a geriatric doctor, decided to move their mother up to Boston, where her sister who is head of geriatrics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, lives.
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
In almost all medical schools, pediatrics training is mandatory, while training in geriatrics can be hard for medical students to find.
—Sara Zeff Geber, Phd, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
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The crowd applauds uproariously when Kevin’s elderly neighbor shows up at the end to hit them in the head with a shovel.Erin Somers, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
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Three low-flyers wing an elderly man in the face and don’t miss a flap, his Ray Bans go flying.Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2024
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One refrain in the script is the younger workers repeatedly lecturing their elders — with impunity — to do better.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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It's reserved for the sort of elders or other regulars.Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 22 Dec. 2024
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Both studies monitored obese adults with moderate to severe sleep apnea over a 52-week period.Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Dec. 2024
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Perhaps the most striking comes from the Baltimore Experience Corps trial, a large experiment in which adults age 60 and older were randomly assigned to either volunteer at elementary schools or be put on a waiting list.Maria Godoy, NPR, 25 Dec. 2024
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Folks back in the day had Yoda as their feisty oldster and the kids now have Maz. 36.Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
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The Duke is the true tale of an eccentric oldster who, in 1961, stole a Francisco Goya painting of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.Dallas News, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2022
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Perhaps the most striking comes from the Baltimore Experience Corps trial, a large experiment in which adults age 60 and older were randomly assigned to either volunteer at elementary schools or be put on a waiting list.Maria Godoy, NPR, 25 Dec. 2024
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The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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“Geriatric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/geriatric. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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