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Also by Marc Agronin:

How We Age, February 2011
Hardcover

HOW WE AGE
By: Marc Agronin

A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Growing Old

Da Capo Press
February 2011
On Sale: February 1, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 0306818531
EAN: 9780306818530
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

In the tradition of Atul Gawande and Sherwin Nuland, Marc Agronin writes luminously and unforgettably of life as he sees it as a doctor. His beat is a nursing home in Miami that some would dismiss as “God’s waiting room.” Nothing in the young doctor’s medical training had quite prepared him for what he was to discover there. As Agronin first learned from ninety-eight-year-old Esther and, later, from countless others, the true scales of aging aren’t one-sided—you can’t list the problems without also tallying the hopes and promises. Drawing on moving personal experiences and in-depth interviews with pioneers in the field, Agronin conjures a spellbinding look at what aging means today—how our bodies and brains age, and the very way we understand aging.

Media Buzz

Diane Rehm Show - NPR - July 7, 2011
On Point - May 4, 2011
Today - February 17, 2011
Talk of the Nation - February 14, 2011