ELDERHOOD: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

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. 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 can be full of joy, and hope.