Louise Aronson MD MFA
Professor of Medicine/Geriatrics; Director, AGE SELF CARE Project;
Director, Medical Humanities; and Clinical Lead, Senior Hub, SFDPH COVID Command;
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco CA

Justin B. Mutter MD MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Chief of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine;
and Faculty, Center for Health Humanities and Ethics, School of Medicine, UVA

Marcia Day Childress PhD, moderator

Among the COVID-19 pandemic's lessons is an increased awareness of the hazards of old age. But only a fraction of that risk is biological. At a moment in history when most of us will live into old age, we've created a world that's almost entirely focused on childhood and adulthood. It's time now to define, design, and empower this new, nearly universal elderhood. In this Medical Center Hour, geriatrician and writer Louise Aronson draws on her clinical experience and creative abilities to reimagine and advocate for old age not as a disease but as a vital phase of being human, with implications for social and community life, technology, geroscience, and healthcare. How shall we now approach elderhood?

Resources:
1. Aronson L. Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.
2. Carstensen L. A Long Bright Future: Happiness, Health and Financial Security in an Age of Increased Longevity. New York: Public Affairs, 2011
3. Applewhite A. This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism. New York: Celadon Books, 2019
4. Didion J. The Year of Magical Thinking. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005
5. Hall D. Essays After Eighty. New York: Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt, 2014
6. Mutter JB. Neglected in the house of medicine: toward a healthy political economy of aging in America. The Hedgehog Review 2018, 20(3): 46-56
Louise Aronson, MD MFA is a graduate of Brown University (AB), Harvard Medical School (MD), and Warren Wilson College (MFA). She trained in internal medicine and geriatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and more recently (2018-2020) completed an integrative medicine fellowship at the University of Arizona. She is a leading geriatrician, writer, educator, and professor of medicine at UCSF as well as the author of the New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life (2019). Dr. Aronson has received the Gold Professorship in Humanism in Medicine, the California Homecare Physician of the Year Award, and the American Geriatrics Society Clinician-Teacher of the Year Award. In addition to her clinical practice and teaching, she currently leads the AGE SELF CARE program, directs UCSF's Medical Humanities program, and is the clinical lead for the Senior Hub of the San Francisco Department of Public Health COVID-19 response. She also serves on the California state COVID vaccine allocation workgroup and the state's memory care and assisted living task forces. Dr. Aronson's writing credits include A History of the Present Illness (Bloomsbury USA, 2013), a volume of short fiction.

Justin B. Mutter MD MSc holds degrees from the University of Virginia (BA, MD) and the University of Oxford (MSc), where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He completed a residency in family medicine at the Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville NC, then returned to UVA for a fellowship in geriatric medicine and a faculty appointment. A primary care geriatrician, Dr. Mutter is chief of geriatrics in the Department of Medicine's Division of General, Geriatric, Palliative, and Hospital Medicine; a faculty member in the Center for Health Humanities and Ethics; on the core faculty with the medical school's Generalist Scholars Program; and a faculty fellow with the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, based in UVA's College of Arts of Sciences. He is the creator and founding medical director of Virginia At Home, an innovative program of comprehensive, home-based care for frail elderly in the community.
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