Like "elder-law" attorneys and geriatric nurses, these managers are pursuing a fairly new specialty and filling a growing need.

Her mother is a geriatric nurse at the United Presbyterian Residential Home in Woodbury, L.I.

MORE companies are trying to support workers by offering subsidies, in-home care assessments by geriatric nurses and even on-site geriatric care managers.

His mother is a geriatric nurse in Chester, Conn.

No one knows this better than Perrilloux's mother, Bobbie Breaux, who left her job as a geriatric nurse to help Perrilloux through his senior season and the recruiting grind.

She has her hopes pinned on becoming a geriatric or psychiatric nurse by 2002.

Residents are trained to work in teams, with social workers and geriatric nurses, as well as other doctors.

"I generally find the idea good," said Sandra Gehrmann, 28, a geriatric nurse visiting from Dresden.

Mrs. Khoder, 46, is studying to become a geriatric nurse at Westchester Community College.

His mother is a geriatric nurse at St. Joseph's Center, a residential facility in Shankill, Ireland, for patients with Alzheimer's disease.