1. Elderhood Description : Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General NonfictionLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionWinner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book AwardWinner of theAt Home With Growing Older Impact AwardThe New York Times bestseller from physician

2. and awardwinning writer Louise Aronsonan essential empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life as revelatory as Atul Gawandes Being MortalFor more thanyears old has been defined as beginning between the ages ofandThat means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood and many will be elders foryears or more Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before weve made old age into a disease a condition to be dreaded denigrated neglected and deniedReminiscent of Oliver Sacks noted Harvardtrained 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 thats neither nightmare nor utopian fantasya vision full of joy wonder frustration outrage and hope about aging medicine and humanity itselfElderhood is for anyone who is in the authors own words an aging ie stillbreathing human being