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"As 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. 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...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 This book is a collection of stories about the effects of aging on patients, doctors, and nurses. It is both conventional and countercultural, fact- and story-based, affectionate and opinionated, part battle cry and part lament.
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