Elderhood : redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life
(Large Print)
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Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
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Published
Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
Format
Large Print
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855 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Aronson, L. (2019). Elderhood: redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life (Large print edition.). Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Aronson, Louise. 2019. Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Aronson, Louise. Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Aronson, Louise. Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life Large print edition., Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
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