عنوان

The denial of aging :

(Number (ISBN

0674037596

(Number (ISBN

9780674037595

Erroneous ISBN

0674021487

Erroneous ISBN

0674025431

Erroneous ISBN

9780674021488

Erroneous ISBN

9780674025431

Number

b796150

Title Proper

The denial of aging :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

perpetual youth, eternal life, and other dangerous fantasies /

First Statement of Responsibility

Muriel R. Gillick.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Harvard University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (341 pages)

Text of Note

Originally published: 2006.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-330) and index.

Text of Note

1. An ounce of prevention -- 2. When less is more -- 3. Doing the right thing near the end -- 4. The trouble with Medicare -- 5. Is a nursing home in your future? -- 6. Assisted living : boon or boondoogle? -- 7. The lure of immoratality -- 8. Making the most of the retirement years.

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Text of Note

You've argued politics with your aunt since high school, but failing eyesight now prevents her from keeping current with the newspaper. Your mother fractured her hip last year and is confined to a wheelchair. Your father has Alzheimer's and only occasionally recognizes you. Someday, as Muriel Gillick points out in this important yet unsettling book, you too will be old. And no matter what vitamin regimen you're on now, you will likely one day find yourself sick or frail. How do you prepare? What will you need? With passion and compassion, Gillick chronicles the stories of elders who have struggled with housing options, with medical care decisions, and with finding meaning in life. Skillfully incorporating insights from medicine, health policy, and economics, she lays out action plans for individuals and for communities. In addition to doing all we can to maintain our health, we must vote and organize--for housing choices that consider autonomy as well as safety, for employment that utilizes the skills and wisdom of the elderly, and for better management of disability and chronic disease. Most provocatively, Gillick argues against desperate attempts to cure the incurable. Care should focus on quality of life, not whether it can be prolonged at any cost. A good old age, writes Gillick, is within our grasp. But we must reach in the right direction.

Text of Note

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/ctvjtt7xz

Title

Denial of aging.

International Standard Book Number

0674025431

Aging-- United States.

Old age-- United States-- Planning.

Old age-- United States.

Older people-- United States.

Retirement-- United States.

Aging.

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS-- Aging.

HEALTH & FITNESS-- Health Care Issues.

Old age-- Planning.

Old age.

Older people.

Retirement.

United States.

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FAM-- 005000

HEA-- 010000

HEA-- 028000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Gillick, Muriel R.,1951-

Date of Transaction

20201207090408.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

pn

Electronic name

[Book]

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