Elderhood
Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
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Narrated by:
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Eliza Foss
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Written by:
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Louise Aronson
About this listen
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 Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s 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, we’ve 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 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."©2019 Louise Aronson, MD (P)2019 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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- Norma-Rae Chapman
- 2023-01-14
Awakening and insightful
Living in my ‘70’s has offered me many new positive experiences. Reading this book has offered me insight and inspiration and an appreciation I take forward with enthusiasm. I have asked my 45 year old daughter to read on my behalf and hers so we can embrace the next 2 perhaps 3 decades that I have with her in my life. A beautiful read; my proverbial step in life has been lifted to a new anticipated high. Thank you.
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- Craig
- 2021-10-06
Very important book..
…for all of us to read…young and old. I personally struggle with “relevance” as I get older and this book helped to understand this feeling.
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