Elderhood, redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life, Louise Aronson
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Label
Elderhood, redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life, Louise Aronson
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-435) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Elderhood
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1052902950
Responsibility statement
Louise Aronson
Sub title
redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life
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
Creator
Subject
- Vieillissement -- États-Unis -- Opinion publique
- Aging + Social aspects -- United States
- Geriatrics
- Older people + Health and hygiene -- United States
- Personnes âgées + Santé et hygiène -- États-Unis
- Older people + Medical care -- United States
- Aging -- United States -- Psychological aspects
- Aging -- United States -- Public opinion
- Vieillissement -- États-Unis
- Personnes âgées + Soins médicaux -- États-Unis
- Autobiographies
- Health Services for the Aged
- United States
- Aging -- United States
- Aging + psychology
- Vieillissement -- États-Unis -- Aspect psychologique
- Vieillissement + Aspect social -- États-Unis
- Personnes âgées -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales
- Older people -- United States -- Social conditions
- Autobiography
- Aged + psychology
- Aged, 80 and over + psychology
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- Genre2
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- Vieillissement -- États-Unis -- Opinion publique
- Aging + Social aspects -- United States
- Geriatrics
- Older people + Health and hygiene -- United States
- Personnes âgées + Santé et hygiène -- États-Unis
- Older people + Medical care -- United States
- Aging -- United States -- Psychological aspects
- Aging -- United States -- Public opinion
- Vieillissement -- États-Unis
- Personnes âgées + Soins médicaux -- États-Unis
- Autobiographies
- Health Services for the Aged
- United States
- Aging -- United States
- Aging + psychology
- Vieillissement -- États-Unis -- Aspect psychologique
- Vieillissement + Aspect social -- États-Unis
- Personnes âgées -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales
- Older people -- United States -- Social conditions
- Autobiography
- Aged + psychology
- Aged, 80 and over + psychology
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- Author1
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