How to pronounce “geront” in English

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

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

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

And that's where gerontology came from.

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.

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 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

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.

'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,

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

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.

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