02762cam a2200361 4500 416480573 TxAuBib 20191208120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781620405482 1620405482 B07QLN3Z8J Amazon 235df0f7-c22d-4870-a7be-561e563cc400 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4760242 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Aronson, Louise. Elderhood [Libby eBook] : Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4806kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<b>A <i>New York Times</i> bestseller</b><br /> <b>Longlisted for the Carnegie<br /></b><b>As revelatory as Atul Gawande's <i>Being Mortal</i>, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's <i>Elderhood</i> is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but</b> <b>often disparaged</b> <b>stage of life.</b><br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> <i>Elderhood</i> is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, "an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being.". Biography & Autobiography. Health & Fitness. Nonfiction. Medical. Media Type: eBook. Notable Books for Adults. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-02-08 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=235df0f7-c22d-4870-a7be-561e563cc400&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=235df0f7-c22d-4870-a7be-561e563cc400&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=235df0f7-c22d-4870-a7be-561e563cc400&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXMLR