The art and science of gerontology has all but gone and this is a pity.

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Christian, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research at Brown.

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John Walsh, a professor of gerontology at USC, studies the effect of intense exercise on brain development.

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When he died Thursday, Sisnett was the oldest man in the Western Hemisphere, whose age had been validated, according to the Gerontology Research Group.

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As of January 2013, there are 16 people left in the world who were born in the 1800s, according to the Gerontology Research Group.

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The use of feeding tubes in these patients does not extend life, according to Joan Teno, associate director of the center for gerontology at Brown.

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He stumbled into gerontology by a very baby boomer route.

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The findings offer a snapshot of the changing landscape of American families, and they also show households beset by financial problems, said Jan Mutchler, who has studied the issue as a professor at the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.

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The government has asked the committee to examine the proposals before the finalised bill is introduced - and their first group of witnesses include Age UK, Carers UK, the TUC, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Pensions Policy Institute, former government pensions policy adviser Dr Ros Altmann, former Labour minister Baroness Hollis of Heigham and Professor Jay Ginn (Institute of Gerontology, King's College London), Women's Budget Group.

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