A Clearer Map For Aging: ‘Elderhood’ Shows How Geriatricians Can Help

Dr. Louise Aronson, of the University of California, San Francisco, sees geriatrics as a specialty that should adapt and change with each patient. "I need to be a different sort of doctor for people at different ages and phases of old age," she says.

Physician Louise Aronson treats patients who are in their 60s — as well as those who are older than 100. She writes about changing approaches to elder health care in the book, Elderhood.

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Terry Gross