This episode: Professor and geriatrician Louise Aronson, author of Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine talks about how the medicalization of aging has negatively affected our later years. Dr. Aronson provides suggestions on how we can rethink aging and work to transform medical care so that our wishes for treatment and care are respected.
As part of Mental Health Awareness Month, BAY MADE is sharing a week of shows from Not Born Yesterday, hosted by Miriam Goodman and Lynn Winter Gross. The San Francisco-produced podcast examines the problems and solutions of growing older today.