How to pronounce “gero” in English

gerontology. For a lot of gerontology and gerontological psychology to that point, uh, people mostly studied mental decline and physical decline. Those

Geronimo is really complicated.

Geronimo never really united.

The gerontology approach is to weaken the left-hand side, the link between metabolism and damage.

The gerontology approach, as I am calling it, is not doomed in principle the way the geriatric approach is.

the gerontological research the government data the average costs to try

His name is Shane Gero.

with uh The gerontocracy feels like a huge problem in American politics. So why

And that's where gerontology came from.

Why I think Geronimo is such a wonderful figure unlike Pocahontas, unlike Sitting Bull, unlike Red Cloud, unlike some really amazing figures.

I mean Geronimo was never even chief for crying out loud.

I love this quote from a Dutch gerontologist named Jan Baars, "Autonomy requires collaborators." No one is independent ever.

had never been brought into gerontology before.

And it was actually a person called Gerolamo Cardano, who was during the Renaissance in Italy, he was a physician.

And what I love about using Geronimo is that he's a very Shakespearian figure.

The one that was translated to English is "In Geronimo's Footsteps," and we still have a few copies here.

In the book, Geronimo goes back to India and laments about the differences between Bombay and Mumbai.

Well, what is the gerontology approach?

But there's a couple of problems with the gerontology approach too.

This is probably the single most influential paper in the whole of gerontology as of now.

And this painting, by Jean Leon Gerome, called "Grey Eminence" hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts.

And that's what has given rise to what I'm calling here the gerontology approach, which is the approach favored and pursued by that rare breed of people who study

But worse than that, the gerontology approach suffers a problem that is rather analogous to this problem, namely-- there we go-- this problem.

All of these things have been major topics of research and discussion within gerontology since at least the early 1980s.

All of these things have been major topics of study and discussion in gerontology since at least the 1980s and in many cases a lot longer.

You may, however, have noticed that gerontology has not delivered the cure to aging any more than geriatric medicine has.

And unfortunately, you know, it took a while for gerontologists to realize this.

And any misapprehension that you may have as a result of the kinds of things that gerontologists were often saying about these ideas

He always liked to hang out in the Gila wilderness wherever possible, because that's where Geronimo had run free.

Really, that's amazing. Most gerontology consists of-- it's a bit like seismology.

Rather than trying to slow down the rate at which metabolism creates damage, as the gerontology approach tries

So, of course, no one working in gerontology knew anything about this.

than we actually do today-- in order to have a prayer of implementing what I'm calling the gerontology approach.

What I love about the book if I'm allowed to say such a thing is we end before Geronimo ever really becomes famous.

'Cause it's the old people who are in charge of everything, you know, they're gerontocracies, and it's all a bunch of 80-year-olds running everything,

How does inequality get under our skin and lead to accelerated aging or biological weathering, as Dr. Arline Geronimus at the University of Michigan

The rest goes on specific research on Alzheimer's disease and/or geriatric medicine, or even social gerontology,

Let's see, this is Bill Haseltine who invented the term "regenerative medicine." This is Mike West who started Geron and then advanced

to run it. Now Art Levinson has the enormous advantage that he is not a card-carrying, lifelong gerontologist, so he is not in danger of being encumbered

They are an example of the, what I would call a moment ago, the gerontology approach.

footage of the average boxing ring; the hours of operation of a Two Birds Cafe in San Geronimo; what percentage of Americans are idiotic enough to believe that Barack Obama is Muslim; the

don't we go out and look for them? Umm, there was a group at University of Southern California led by a pretty prominent gerontological psychologist named