Treat me, not my age a doctor's guide to getting the best care as you or a loved one gets older
A manual for boomers and their parents to take control of their health in a broken health-care system. Too often our culture defines the aging process negatively instead of embracing it as a natural part of life. Nowhere is this problem more pronounced than in our health-care system, where "age...
| Main Author: | Lachs, Mark. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Viking,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- "You're a what"? : understanding how geriatricians think about aging
- The biology of aging : an embarrassment of riches that you were never supposed to need
- A geriatrician's perspective on ageism : it's not just grandpa who's being put out to pasture
- Do no harm, but for God's sake, do something
- Cookbook medicine : a recipe for disaster at any age
- Bedside matters : do you have an aging-friendly primary care doc?
- How many specialists does it take to screw in a lightbulb (or screw you up)?
- Care transitions as you get older : cracks you didn't even know you could fall through
- No place for sick people : hospitals as we get older
- You could become geriatric just waiting : how to emerge from the emergency room unscathed
- In search of an honorable discharge
- Maybe you're not the problem : disability caused by places and not people (or their diseases)
- Home away from home as we age
- Medications as we age
- Complementary and alternative medicine, vitamins, and supplements : who do you believe?
- Money and aging
- Financial gerontology : the good, the bad, and the phony
- It ain't over till it's over (and sometimes not even then) : a geriatrician talks about death and dying
- Staying in control : making and encouraging good choices as we age
- It's never too late.