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Wise Aging Speaker Series: Dr. Louise Aronson, Author of “Elderhood”—ZOOM

Sunday, April 18, 2021 6 Iyar 5781

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Wise Aging Speaker Series presents
Dr. Louise Aronson, MD, speaking about her book Elderhood
Sunday, April 18, 1 PM - 2:30 PM

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Louise Aronson, MD, is the author of Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life, a New York Times Best Seller. As part of our speaker series, Dr. Aronson will be discussing current assumptions about aging in society and medicine as well as visions for improving our medical and social worlds.

During her talk, Dr. Aronson will share stories and examples from her work caring for seniors as well as from science, medicine, anthropology, popular culture, and her own life to examine where we  are now in understanding aging and illness. She is very critical of the anti-aging culture. She draws on her experiences and knowledge  to suggest hope and new visions for aging, medicine, society and our humanity. While acknowledging the profound challenges that  may come with aging, she encourages us that the last stage of life which she calls “elderhood” can also be filled with satisfaction, hope, dignity, meaning, and joy.

Dr. Aronson is the Director of the Optimizing Aging Practice of Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at UCSF and has served as director of the UCSF Health Humanities program. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School, a BA from Brown in Medical Anthropology, and graduated from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her many honors include the Gold Professorship in Humanism, the California Home Care Physician of Year Award, and the American Geriatrics Society Outstanding Mid- Career Clinical Educator of the Year Award.

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