July Book Club - Elderhood by Louise Aronson

Name: July Book Club - Elderhood by Louise Aronson
Start: 2026-07-29T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-07-29T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 2000 Malvern Rd, Columbus, OH 43221-4127, United States

Schedule

Wed Jul 29 2026 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

2000 Malvern Rd, Columbus, OH 43221-4127, United States | Columbus, OH

The July book will be "Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life" by Louise Aronson. Book club will meet on Wednesday, July 29th at 7:00 pm at 2000 Malvern Rd. and via Zoom.
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"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 are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied. Reminiscent 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. -- inside front flap.