{"product_id":"elderhood-redefining-aging-transforming-medicine-reimagining-life-1","title":"Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life","description":"Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction\nA New York Times Bestseller\nLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction\nWinner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book Award\nWinner of the 2022 At Home With Growing Older Impact Award\n\nAs 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.\n\nFor 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.\n\nReminiscent 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.\n\nElderhood is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, \"an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being.\"\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1620405466\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1620405466.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Aronson, Louise\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41798548095034,"sku":"DBV.1620405466.G","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1620405466-0.jpg?v=1792553819","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/elderhood-redefining-aging-transforming-medicine-reimagining-life-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}