Center for Gerontology & Healthcare Research

Congratulations to Dr. Richard Besdine for receiving The Miriam Hospital's The Charles “Bud” Kahn, MD Lifetime Leadership Award.

Richard W. Besdine, MD, of the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, wrote in the Merck Manual for medical information, that geriatrics refers to “medical care for older adults, an age group that is not easy to define precisely. ‘Older’ is preferred over ‘elderly,’ but both are equally imprecise.”