02402cam a2200301 4500 759491690 TxAuBib 20190726120000.0 180914s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018040491 9781620405468 hbk. $30.00 1620405466 hbk. $30.00 (OCoLC)1052902950 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCF OCLCO ZVR TP7 DGU JQM MLSOD TOH T7X HQD YDX BDX TXM UKMGB HMS IUK OCLCO TxGR TxAuBib Aronson, Louise, author. Elderhood [Book] : redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life / Louise Aronson. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2019] xiv, 449 pages ; 23 cm. 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. "[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. 20190726. Older people Health and hygiene United States. Older people Medical care United States. Aging United States. United States. RV8