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Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
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Aronson, a geriatrician, has written an important book about how society and medicine needs to begin to t…more

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Julia Nock
Jun 26, 2019 rated it it was amazing
This is a wonderful book about the intersection of the later stages of life, medicine, and society. Just as children are not simply, as once thought, small adults, but a time of life with its own developmental stages and needs, so aging is an articulated time of life with a broad spectrum of stages and a complex diversity of presentation. Aronson, a geriatrician, uses stories of patients, her own family, and her path in medical training and practice to show how we as a society and as individuals ...more