My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing "Slow Medicine" the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones

McCullough, Dennis MD

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Edition:	1st
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:	0-06-124303-5 (0061243035)
ISBN-13:	978-0-06-124303-5 (9780061243035)
Binding:	Softcover
Copyright:	2009
Publish Date:	01/09
Weight:	0.49 Lbs.
Pages:	263
Subject Class:	C-H (Consumer Health)
Return Policy:	Returns accepted up to 12 months provided no other recalls or return restrictions apply.
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Abstract:

Thanks to advances in science and medicine, our parents are living longer than ever before. But our health-care system doesn't perform as well when decline eventually sets in. We want to do our best as our loved ones face new complications--more diseases and disabilities.demanding further need for support and careful judgment, but the choices we have to make can seem overwhelming. Family doctor and geriatrician Dennis McCullough recommends a new approach: Slow Medicine. Shaped by common sense and kindness, it advocates for careful anticipatory "attending" to an elder's changing needs rather than waiting for crises that force acute medical interventions--thereby improving the quality of elders' extended late lives without bankrupting their families financially or emotionally. This is not a plan for preparing for death; it is a plan for understanding, for caring, and for helping those you love live well during their final years.

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