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Past Event

Reframing Elderhood

This event is the latest in our member-led forums’ Art and Science of Well-Being series.

Louise Aronson has received numerous awards for her medical work, teaching, educational research and writing. In Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life, Aronson urges a large-scale shift in society and medicine’s attitudes toward aging and offers a powerful roadmap for how we all approach old age. She shares anecdotes from her 25 years of caring for patients and her own experiences of getting older and watching her parents age. She also draws from history, science, literature and popular culture to offer hope about aging, medicine and humanity itself. 

MLF Organizer
Denise Michaud
Notes

MLF: Grownups

Aronson photo by Anna Kuperberg

July 31, 2019

The Commonwealth Club
110 The Embarcadero
Toni Rembe Rock Auditorium
San Francisco, 94105
United States

Speakers
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Louise Aronson, M.D.

Geriatrician; Educator; Professor of Medicine, UC San Francisco; Author, Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life and A History of the Present Illness

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Jenara Nerenberg

Journalist, UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center; Author, Divergent Mind—Moderator