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: 9780061243035

ISBN-10: 0061243035

ISBN-13: 9780061243035

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Authors: Dennis McCullough

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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'…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/27/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.484
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