grayhead

plural grayheads · alternative greyhead

1. CanadaUSA person with gray hair; an elderly person.

   What is most troublesome to me is that our residents — no matter how much we grayheads or graybeards model the approach to history-taking from parents — learn that the checklist on the computer screen is the thing to look at, and not the living person describing their child and her problems.

   2009 March 11, “Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships”, in New York Times

   Synonyms: greybeard, hoarhead