Book
Elderhood : redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life / Louise Aronson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781620405468 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xiv, 449 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Older people > Health and hygiene > United States. Aging > United States. Older people > Medical care > United States. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | 362.60973 Aro | 31681010157014 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and the author's own life to explore the way people think and feel about aging. - Baker & Taylor
A geriatrician, writer and professor of medicine challenges the way people think and feel about aging and medicine through stories from her twenty-five years of patient care as well as from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life. - McMillan Palgrave
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
A New York Times Bestseller
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Winner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book Award
Winner of the 2022 At Home With Growing Older Impact Award
As revelatory as Atul Gawandeâs Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronsonâs Elderhood is an essential, empathetic 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, weâve made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied.
Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, noted 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 thatâs 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." - McMillan Palgrave
As revelatory as Atul Gawandeâs Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronsonâs Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life.
