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  • Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
  • Written by: Louise Aronson
  • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
  • Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
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Written by: Louise Aronson
Narrated by: Eliza Foss
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Bloomsbury presents Elderhood by Louise Aronson, read by Eliza Foss.

A New York Times best seller

Longlisted for the Carnegie

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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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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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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