How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Growing Old

Yale Medicine Magazine, 2011 - Spring

Features
News
People
Dialogue
Reactions to women in medicine
From the editor: A snapshot of the School of Medicine
Remembering Tom Forbes
A “phantom” in the Class of ’72
The dark side of motherhood
The Roots of the Recovery Movement in Psychiatry: Lessons Learned
Ocular Inflammatory Disease and Uveitis Manual: Diagnosis and Treatment
After the Diagnosis: Transcending Chronic Illness
How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Growing Old
Probiotics: A Clinical Guide
Envy Theory: Perspectives on the Psychology of Envy
Mapping pathways in the human brain
Changing the language of medicine
Handbook of Brain Microcircuits, 1st ed.
Gastrointestinal Malignancies: An Issue of Emerging Cancer Therapeutics
Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care
Visualizing Psychology, 2nd ed.
Second Opinion

by Marc E. Agronin, M.D. ’91 (Da Capo Press) The author, a specialist in geriatric psychiatry, recounts his experiences counseling the residents of the Miami Jewish Home and Hospital, and describes how his work has transformed his view of aging. This book illustrates that aging is more than an inevitable decline—that old age can also be a period of vitality, wisdom, and creativity.

After the Diagnosis: Transcending Chronic Illness

Probiotics: A Clinical Guide

How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Growing Old

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