In this episode*, I interview Dr. Louise Aronson, the author the New York Times bestseller, Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life. Listen in as we discuss how society’s negative views about aging impacts how we care for seniors and approach the third stage of life. The cost to individuals, especially women, is high but all of us can take steps to treat ourselves and our aging parents better. It starts by shifting your age mindset, planning for a long life, and embracing all the good that comes with elderhood.

Louise Aronson, MD MFA, is a leading geriatrician, writer, educator, professor of medicine at UCSF and the author of the New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist book, Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, 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, UCSF Medical Humanities, and is the clinical lead for the Senior branch of the San Francisco Department of Public Health COVID-19 response. Her writing credits include the New York Times, Atlantic, Washington Post, Discover, Vox, JAMA, Lancet, and the New EnglandJournal of Medicine, and she has been featured on NPR’s Fresh Air, TODAY, CBS This Morning, Morning Edition, Politico, Kaiser Health News, Tech Nation, and the New Yorker. For more information, visit www.louisearonson.com.