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

Name: My Mother, Your Mother Embracing Slow Medicine, the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones
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ISBN: 9780061243028

ISBN-10: 0061243027

ISBN-13: 9780061243028

Edition: 2008

Authors: Dennis McCullough, Dennis Mccullough

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What's the right thing to do for mom and dad as they get older? Thanks to advances in science and medicine, more of our parents are living longer than ever before. And though we are rewarded with more time with the people we love, we are also faced with new sets of complications-more diseases, more disability, more need for support and careful judgments. Yet while our health care system may help people live to an older age, it doesn't perform so well when decline eventually sets in. We want to do the best thing but are overwhelmed with the staggering choices we face. Geriatrician Dennis McCullough has spent his life helping families to cope with their parents' aging and eventual…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/5/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Preface


First Things: The Foundation of a New Family Understanding


The Eight Stations of Late Life


Stability: "Everything is just fine, dear." -MOM


Compromise: "Mom's having a little problem." -DAD


Crisis: "I can't believe she's in the hospital." -SISTER


Recovery: "She'll be with us for a while." -REHABILITATION NURSE


Decline: "We can't expect much more." -VISITING NURSE


Prelude to Dying: "I sense a change in her spirit." -NURSE IN LONG-TERM CARE


Death: "You'd better come now." -HOSPICE NURSE


Grieving/Legacy: "We did the right things ..." -BROTHER


Epilogue


Slow Medicine Websites


Slow Medicine Reading


Slow Medicine Cinema


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index