Elderhood redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life

"[P]hysician and ... author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is a ... 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, a...

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Main Author: Aronson, Louise (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2019]
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505 0 |a Birth. Life -- Childhood. Infant ; Toddler ; Child ; Tween ; Teen -- Adulthood. Young adult ; Adult ; Middle-aged ; Senior -- Elderhood. Old ; Elderly ; Aged -- Death. Stories -- Coda. Opportunity. 
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