Year: 2020
Type: book-review
Abstract: Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life (2019), provides a comprehensive and sweeping look at how the medicalization of aging has negatively affected our views of older adulthood.This book is both a memoir of her personal experiences caring for elders and a treatise on how we should reframe aging in our society.The book outlines depressing stories of misdiagnosis and maltreatment of older adults as the result of ageism rooted in our medicalization of the aging process.The author also counters these discourses by providing suggestions about how to transform medicine and rethink aging.This monograph brings together research from anthropology, sociology, psychology, biology, and public health to examine the roots of ageism that dehumanize older adults.The author artfully weaves research findings with recommendations for physicians and society-at-large to learn to respect and value elderhood.
Source: Anthropology & Aging
DOI: 10.5195/aa.2020.290
Author: Britteny M. Howell
Institution: University of Alaska Anchorage
Language: English
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3111455103