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Updates for January 2020

12/24/2019

 
Next Meeting:
Dr. Louise Aronson, MD
Date: January 11, 2020 1:00-3:15 pm (2nd Saturday)
Topic: Elderhood

Physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson, a noted Harvard-trained geriatrician, introduces a revolutionary perspective on aging in her new book ELDERHOOD: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimaging Life. Sharing stories from her personal and professional life, and drawing from history, science, literature, and popular culture, Dr. Aronson offers a powerful roadmap for how we approach old age. Full of joy, wonder, frustration, and outrage, Dr. Aronson’s moving book offers hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself.

With modern increases in human lifespans, the period of elderhood—what Dr. Aronson calls the third and final stage of life, after childhood and adulthood—may now span forty years of our lives or more. But in American society, at the very moment that we are living longer than ever before, we have turned old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, disparaged, neglected, and denied, as we try to avoid the signs of our own aging and mortality. Throughout Elderhood, Dr. Aronson shares anecdotes from her twenty-five years of caring for patients, and from her personal experiences of getting older and watching her parents age. From what these experiences have taught her, she envisions a large-scale shift in society’s—and medicine’s—attitude toward aging, made up of crucial adjustments in how we see the changes in each other’s and our own bodies, how we care for older people, how we set doctors’ salaries and bill patients, and ultimately, how we conceive of the final third of life. Not as an ending or decline, but as yet another stage of life with its hardships and challenges, opportunities and joys.

“In the latter years there are possibilities for joy, transcendence, and meaning, but also for just the opposite. Aronson writes like a memoirist while giving us scientific insight, philosophical wisdom, and wise counsel for a journey and destination we all share. Elderhood is a lovely and thoughtful exploration of this voyage.” —Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone

Louise Aronson, MD, is the author of the story collection A History of the Present Illness and a geriatrician, educator, and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she directs UCSF Medical Humanities. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, Dr. Aronson has received numerous awards for her medical work, teaching, educational research, and writing. The recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and four Pushcart nominations, her articles and stories have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and Bellevue Literary Review. She lives in San Francisco.

2020 Speakers

12/24/2019

 
We are continuing to hold our Monthly Meetings by Zoom. Our List of Speakers is below. We will send a Newsletter the first week of each month with all the information for the upcoming month. You will also receive an email reminder for meetings with the Zoom link.

Speakers
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January 11: Louise Aronson, MD, Gerontologist, Clinician, Professor UCSF
Topic: Elderhood (Her book available at meeting)
Sharon Marts attending Caregiver Group (Her book: Fruits of Care available at meeting)

February 8: George Triadafilopoulos, MD
Topic: PD Gut Relationship

March 14: Canceled

April 11: Canceled

May 9: Dr. Rafael Zuzuarregui
Topic: Sleep Issues with PD

June 13: Barbara Corinblit, Speech Therapist
Topic: Speech & Communication Issues in PD

July 11: Tess Lorraine
Topic: The Gift: Talking About What Matters in the End
More Info: See Other Resources 


August 8: Dr. Phil Grob
Topic: Cannabis Use in PD

September 12: Robert Leavitt & Sarina Ferguson, PT
Topic: LSVT-BIG & Balance Issues

October 10: Steve Blake
Topic: Nutrition in PD

November 14:
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Mai Vuong, MD: New Medications
Amir Badei, MD: Gut Microbiome & Constipation


December 12: TBA

Updates for December 2019

12/22/2019

 
Parkinson’s Support Group of Sonoma County

Holiday Celebration

Saturday, December 14th (2nd Saturday)

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Christ Church United Methodist
1717 Yulupa Avenue, Santa Rosa

Please join us for our Annual Holiday Party
Enjoy refreshments & conversation with friends
Enjoy music & song presentations performed by our talented members

What to Bring:
Finger foods to share
Your family and friends
A favorite poem or story to share

Updates for November 2019

12/22/2019

 
Meeting cancelled due to Kincade Fire Evacuations.

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