How we age : a doctor's journey into the heart of growing old / Marc E. Agronin.
Title:
How we age : a doctor's journey into the heart of growing old / Marc E. Agronin.
Author:
Agronin, Marc E.
ISBN:
9780306818530
9780738215587
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, ©2011.
Physical Description:
ix, 302 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Heaven can't wait -- Age, I must -- Long time dead? -- Isaac, Erik, Isaac -- Annabe, Bartleby, and the doctor who flunks aging -- Joseph red hair -- Old pickled brain -- Lousy -- The strange but true case of Dawson Da Vinci -- If I forget thee -- Savant, of sorts -- Strength in numbers -- Old soldiers -- Memories, false and fixed -- The elders -- Bereft -- Just words -- Liar, liar -- Rules of four -- Final acts -- Mended -- Lessons from fire -- The seamstress -- Trees.
Abstract:
A young doctor's reflections on his experiences as a nursing-home psychiatrist--with remarkable stories of vitality and growth that transformed his view of aging.
