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Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
by Louise Aronson
Elderhood by Louise Aronson is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in late April.
Oof, it looks quite deep from the chapter names in the table of contents, though I’d eventually learn that these didn’t bear much relevance on the stories being told as much as just marking where one story stopped and another began (i.e. you could pretty much just number the chapters, instead of name them so philosophically). Elderhood presented as being the latter part of someone’s life from the perspective of a doctor, his patients, and colleagues, as well as the stereotypes, bias, and perceptions of how the fairly young feel about aging, appropriating a bedside manner towards an older person, the field of gerontology, dementia/Alzheimer’s, hanging on emotionally or aesthetically to one’s youth, recovering from the effects of a stroke or fall, overmedicating, and living at home versus in assisted living.
Oof, it looks quite deep from the chapter names in the table of contents, though I’d eventually learn that these didn’t bear much relevance on the stories being told as much as just marking where one story stopped and another began (i.e. you could pretty much just number the chapters, instead of name them so philosophically). Elderhood presented as being the latter part of someone’s life from the perspective of a doctor, his patients, and colleagues, as well as the stereotypes, bias, and perceptions of how the fairly young feel about aging, appropriating a bedside manner towards an older person, the field of gerontology, dementia/Alzheimer’s, hanging on emotionally or aesthetically to one’s youth, recovering from the effects of a stroke or fall, overmedicating, and living at home versus in assisted living.