gerontologyn.

1903 P. C. Mitchell tr. E. Metchnikoff Nat. Man (1904) xii. 298 The scientific study of old age and of death, two branches of science that may be called gerontology and thanatology.

1954 Medical Press 25 Aug. 180/1 The science of gerontology..includes the medical and biologic, the psychologic and sociologic, the economic and philosophic aspects of ageing.

1967 New Scientist 19 Jan. 160/2 There is in Britain only one university chair in geriatrics, and none in gerontology.

1944 Science 8 Dec. 508 Thus McCay, referring to gerontological work, expressed the need [etc.].

1954 Medical Press 25 Aug. 180/1 No such science as a ‘science of ageing’ has actually been constituted—even, apparently, where most attention has been given to gerontological studies.

1967 New Scientist 19 Jan. 160/1 The relatively small numbers engaged in gerontological research in Britain.

1941 Time 22 Sept. 48 First problem facing the gerontologists is to get funds for research.

1955 New Biol. 18 29 The gerontologist, with the prolongation of human life in mind, is interested in something..which is in no sense comparable with the evolution of sight.

1966 Listener 21 Apr. 573/1 Muscle aging is of particular interest, however, for gerontologists—people, that is, who are working on the nature and control of age changes.