Geriatrics Quotes:

I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.

- James Thurber

source: Quoted in an interview with Glenna Syse in Time Magazine, August 15, 1960.

topic: Eight, Years, Age, Forty Eight, Geriatrics

My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.

- Cat Cora

source: "Chef Cat Cora says "Bon Appetit" at Sundance". Interview with Jane Clark, www.reuters.com. January 20, 2009.

topic: Mom, Teacher, Dad, Geriatrics

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

- James Thurber

topic: Thinking, Numbers, Years, Geriatrics

A word to the wise to all the children of the twentieth century, whether their concern be pediatrics or geriatrics, whether they crawl on hands and knees and wear diapers or walk with a cane and comb their beards. There's a wondrous magic to Christmas, and there's a special power reserved for little people. In short, there's nothing mightier than the meek, and a merry Christmas to each and all.

- Rod Serling

source: "The Twilight Zone: The Night of the Meek". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1960.

topic: Wise, Children, Merry Christmas, Twilight Zone, Geriatrics

In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less.

- Atul Gawande

source: "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

topic: Team, Independent, People, Geriatrics

Still very active And rarely seen apart You're teenage geriatrics Modern and young at heart

- John Walter Bratton

topic: Anniversary, Teenage, Heart, Geriatrics, Young At Heart