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

Main entry:

Aronson, Louise, author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
©2019

Description:

xiv, 449 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-435) and index.
Birth. Life -- Childhood. Infant ; Toddler ; Child ; Tween ; Teen -- Adulthood. Young adult ; Adult ; Middle-aged ; Senior -- Elderhood. Old ; Elderly ; Aged -- Death. Stories -- Coda. Opportunity.

Summary:

"Physician 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.

ISBN:

9781620405468 (hardcover)
1620405466 (hardcover)
9781620405475 (paperback)
1620405474 (paperback)
(e-book)
9781620405482

Subject:

Older people Health and hygiene United States.
Aging United States.
Aging United States Psychological aspects.
Aging Social aspects United States.
Aging United States Public opinion.
Older people Medical care United States.
Older people United States Social conditions.
Aged psychology
Aging psychology
Aged, 80 and over psychology
Health Services for the Aged
Geriatrics
Personnes âgées Santé et hygiène États-Unis.
Vieillissement États-Unis.
Vieillissement États-Unis Aspect psychologique.
Vieillissement Aspect social États-Unis.
Vieillissement États-Unis Opinion publique.
Personnes âgées Soins médicaux États-Unis.
Personnes âgées États-Unis Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Gerontology.
Older people Social conditions.
Older people Health and hygiene.
Aging Social aspects.
Aging Public opinion.
Aging Psychological aspects.
Aging.
Older people.
Older people Medical care.
Elderly Health and hygiene.
Elderly Medical care.
United States

Form/genre:

Autobiography
Autobiographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308604
Call No.: BIB 253972
Status: Available

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