Highlights
- •For Marc Agronin, MD 2022 AAGP Presidential Address
- •This address was presented at the Presidential Plenary at the 2022 annual meeting of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry.
- •In the article, Dr. Agronin presents a rationale for redefining aging based on positive, age-emergent strengths such as wisdom, resilience, purpose and creativity.
- •He suggests that we adopt a more expensive and positive approach to aging that can start with the very vocabulary we use to describe aging and aging individuals.
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