Large Print Book
Elderhood : redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life / Louise Aronson.
"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.""-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781432870829
- ISBN: 1432870823
- Physical Description: 855 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Birth. Life -- Childhood. Infant ; Toddler ; Child ; Tween ; Teen -- Adulthood. Young adult ; Adult ; Middle-aged ; Senior -- Elderhood. Old ; Elderly ; Aged -- Death. Stories -- Coda. Opportunity. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Older people > Health and hygiene > United States. Aging > United States. Older people > Medical care > United States. |
| Genre: | Large print books. |
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- 3 of 3 copies available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | LT 362.6 A769e 2019 (Text) | 33126024392080 | Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | LT 362.6 A769e 2019 (Text) | 33126024392130 | Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Independence Branch | LT 362.6 A769e 2019 (Text) | 33126024392122 | Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |