This document provides instructions for a 2-3 page essay responding to two questions about Aronson's arguments in his book. The first question asks how Aronson's concept of "elderhood" would change the traditional model of aging as a decline, and what else might be included on the y-axis. The second question asks why the author was chilled by the conclusion in Chapter 5, and what that conclusion reveals about how chronological age and old age are viewed in medicine.