Citations:gerascophobia

Noun: "the abnormal and persistent fear of aging or growing old"

 * 2009, Magdalena Ball, "Rock Cycle", in The Battered Suitcase, Volume 2, Issue 2, Autumn 2009, page 130:
 * Hands and knees amongst the rocks
 * licking the lithosphere
 * petrology driving your hunger
 * gerascophobia your desire
 * 2012, Brittany Goltry, "Prevent, Reverse, & Defy: Ageism in Magazine Advertisements", thesis submitted to Carroll College, page 1:
 * Thus, from gerascophobia to ageism, Euro-American society today has an overall negative view of aging.
 * 2013, Claire Fitzpatrick, The Ostracism of Ophelia, Lulu.com (2013), ISBN 9781291402605, page 327:
 * and Aprella, a freckled girl with straight strawberry blonde hair who had been diagnosed with gerascophobia.
 * 2014, Laurencia Perales-Blum, Myrthala Juárez-Treviño, & Daniela Escobedo-Belloc, "Severe Growing-Up Phobia, a Condition Explained in a 14-Year-Old Boy", Case Reports in Psychiatry:
 * Few cases of gerascophobia have been reported.