Synonyms for geriatric
ˌdʒɛr iˈæ trɪk, ˌdʒɪər-geri·atric

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1. geriatricadjective

   of or relating to the aged

   "geriatric disorder"

   Synonyms:
   gerontological

2. geriatric, gerontologicaladjective

   of or relating to or practicing geriatrics

   "geriatric hospital"

   Synonyms:
   gerontological

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1. List of paraphrases for "geriatric":

   geriatrics

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1. Baron Chan:

   [They] no longer have Hansen's disease, the illnesses they have are geriatric.

2. Xinye Qiu:

   Late-life depression should be a geriatric issue that the public and researchers need to be paying more attention to, like on a similar level with Alzheimer’s and other neurological conditions.

3. Douglas Scharre:

   I spend a lot of my time in the memory disorder clinic seeing geriatric patients and taking people off medications, mostly ones that have anticholinergic properties, and many times there can be another drug out there that has less anticholinergic impact or is non-anticholinergic that may work, some of the medications that they list in the study may be quite critical and important and are well worth the person taking for their seizures or their psychosis, and so it's a risk-benefit discussion.

4. Harold Macmillan:

   Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

5. Katherine Raymond:

   It was difficult to determine a treatment plan because most people who have this cancer are geriatric and Fionah was just a baby, it is horrible to watch your baby go through chemo. Nothing prepares you for that. The radiation therapy leaves them with burns. She cried all the time. It was so hard on her.