{"product_id":"elderhood-by-louise-aronson-9781620405475","title":"Elderhood","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA New York Times Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2022 At Home With Growing Older Impact Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs revelatory as Atul Gawande’s \u003cem\u003eBeing Mortal\u003c\/em\u003e, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s \u003cem\u003eElderhood\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReminiscent 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eElderhood\u003c\/em\u003e is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, \"an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47357781737708,"sku":"9781620405475","price":52.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/25731193482764.jpg?v=1772748299","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/elderhood-by-louise-aronson-9781620405475","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}