Geriatrics Quotes

Health care has not so much slowed the ageing process as much as it has slowed the dying process.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason.

I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.

All diseases run into one, old age.

There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.

I want people to remember ABBA as we were. I don't think that four geriatrics wheeled on stage is what we should leave as our legacy.

You get old, you slow down.

My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.

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.

If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

We have medicalized aging, and that experiment is failing us.

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