Being Mortal 2.0: End of Life Care and Dignity in Death
When
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Where
70 Santa Rosa Avenue
Sausalito California 94965
Who can attend
Limited Capacity: 33 spots available
Price
Organizer
End of Life Care at the End of Life and Dignity in Death.
Is it different to die in old age, particularly in advanced old age, than to die earlier in life? Should it be? Our chances of dying increase with each year we live and, thankfully, most Americans die in elderhood, not childhood or adulthood.
Yet the facts of death in old age speak to different standards of care and attention to dying for older people, even as our country purports to have a single, universal approach. Polls find large gaps between what people want at the ends of their lives and what they get. Many of the recent “advances” in care for the dying – from palliative care to assisted suicide – are not set up with the very old in mind. What does death in old age look like today, and what should or could it look like? What can we through our words and assumptions about who and what is worthwhile to help provide people with dignified deaths?
Dr. Louise Aronson has prepared a special talk for Sausalito Village, combining two major topics: End of Life Care at the End of Life and Dignity in Death.
This presentation is part of the Sausalito Village program, Being Mortal 2.0 co-sponsored by Saualito Library
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Dr. 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 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 and serves as an advisor to the state of California on Covid19 in elders.
Her writing credits include the New York Times, Atlantic, Washington Post, JAMA, Lancet, and the New England Journal of Medicine, and she has been featured on NPR’s Fresh Air, TODAY, CBS This Morning, NBC News, and the New Yorker.
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