Elderhood : redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life / Louise Aronson.

Elderhood : redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life / Louise Aronson.

9781620405482 (electronic book)
1620405482 (electronic book)
1620405466
9781620405468

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2019]

©2019

English

1 online resource (xiv, 449 pages)

RA564.8 .A76 2019eb

362.60973

"[P]hysician and ... author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is a ... look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied. ... Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients, and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that's neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy -- a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself. Elderhood is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, "an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being.""-- Provided by publisher.

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