How we age
Subtitle: a doctor's journey into the heart of growing old
By: Marc E. Agronin
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780306818530
Subjects: Aging; Geriatric psychiatry; Nursing home patients; Older people
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: What is old?; title: Heaven can't wait; title: Age, I must; title: Long time dead?; title: Old age rounds; title: Isaac, Erik, Isaac; title: Annabe, Bartleby, and the doctor who flunks aging; title: Joseph red hair; title: Old pickled brain; title: Lousy; title: The strange but true case of Dawson Da Vinci; title: Memory; title: If i forget thee; title: Savant, of sorts; title: Strength in numbers; title: Old soldiers in sight; title: False and fixed; title: Wisdom; title: The elders; title: Bereft; title: Just words; title: Liar, liar; title: Rules of four; title: A million sparks; title: Mended; title: Lessons from fire; title: The seamstress; title: Trees.