{"product_id":"elderhood-redefining-aging-transforming-medicine-reimagining-life-9781620405475","title":"Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 At Home With Growing Older Impact Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller from physician and award-winning writer Louise Aronson--an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life, as revelatory as Atul Gawande's \u003ci\u003eBeing Mortal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eElderhood\u003c\/i\u003e is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, \"an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-6595435\"\u003eLouise Aronson\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781620405475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1620405474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO017000\"\u003eMedical (Incl. Patients)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC013000\"\u003eGerontology\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-MED\"\u003eMedical\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-MED032000\"\u003eGeriatrics\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouise Aronson, MD, MFA, \u003c\/b\u003e is a leading geriatrician, educator, and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she directs UCSF Medical Humanities. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Aronson has received the Gold Professorship in Humanism in Medicine, the California Homecare Physician of the Year Award, the American Geriatrics Society Clinician of the Year Award, and was named one of Next Avenue's 2019 Influencers in Aging. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eA History of the Present Illness\u003c\/i\u003e and her articles and stories have appeared in many publications, including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e New England Journal of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLancet\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42704374399213,"sku":"9781620405475","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_993d45bf-8ee9-420a-a34e-bfe057ba9403.jpg?v=1747452673","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/elderhood-redefining-aging-transforming-medicine-reimagining-life-9781620405475","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}