https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01305

Elderhood, a new book by Louise Aronson, “breathed new life into my somewhat jaded view of the current landscape and potential future of aging in America,” writes Robyn Stone in a recent book review published in Health Affairs. Aronson makes a compelling case for “recognizing elderhood as a unique stage of life with all of its positive and negative dimensions,” writes Stone. Specifically, Aronson calls for the recruitment and training of physicians and other health care professionals to deal with each stage of the life course: pediatricians for childhood, internists for adulthood, and geriatricians for elderhood.