{"product_id":"elderhood","title":"Elderhood","description":"Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction\nLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction\nWinner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book Award\nWinner of the 2022 At Home With Growing Older Impact Award\n\nThe New York Times bestseller from physician and award-winning writer Louise Aronson--an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life, as revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal.\n\nFor 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 are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied.\n\nReminiscent of Oliver Sacks, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise 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's neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy--a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself.\n\nElderhood is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, \"an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being.\"\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1620405474\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1620405474.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Aronson, Louise\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43868549775421,"sku":"BVV.1620405474.A","price":9.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1620405474-0.jpg?v=1792619636","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/elderhood","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}