Louise Aronson
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1,082 appearances
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first heard May 2019
last heard Jul 2024
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I also think that was how I could write elderhood when I was in my 50s, because when I became a geriatrician, and I hear this on our, you know, in our fellows and younger faculty members, they're talking about them.
And at some point you realize like,
oh, right.
Like, this is me too.
And I really, like, you get it intellectually, but you don't get it until it starts happening to you.
And I've had so many patients over the years say, I look in the mirror and I think you're like, who is this guy?
Like, who is this woman?
You know, they feel like their younger self.
And it's kind of like, I think it's related to that thing they say about music.
Like,
I know this is true for me, that I know the words to songs I didn't like when I was a teenager, and I still know the words, but I can't remember a really important article from last week in the New England Journal, right?
Because certain things imprint on you when you're young, and so there's that.
And then there's also the fact that life is a bit of an arc, right?
People talk about, oh, you go first circle, you get to your second childhood.
No, we keep moving forward, but it's shown as an arc because there's this point of increase of high power, you know, in sort of middle adulthood where not everybody, and actually we have more and more older people running this country for better and worse, et cetera, and running big corporations.
But there is this sense of that you had something and now you're losing it.
I think the extreme case of this is the people who are trying to make extreme longevity, make it so that humans don't have to die.
These are almost exclusively powerful males.
And so they're at the top of the human hierarchy and they can't bear the thought of falling down at all.
And that is more of a universal experience that we have as we get older, where old age, instead of being seen as elderhood, I mean, that was part of why I called the book Elderhood, is seen as an inferior adulthood, instead of as a progression into the third major stage of life.
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