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embracing "slow medicine" - the compassionate approach to caring for your aging loved ones

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An edition of My mother, your mother (2008)

My mother, your mother

embracing "slow medicine" - the compassionate approach to caring for your aging loved ones

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Counsels baby boomers on caring for aging parents through their final years, addressing the negative aspects of intensive care, discussing the pros and cons of alternative therapies, and sharing advice about the challenges of overseeing a parent's death.

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Harper
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English
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263

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Subjects

Slow medicine, Adult children of aging parents, Aging parents, Care, Caregivers, Health and hygiene, Medical care, Parent-Child Relations, Psychology, Adult Children, Long-Term Care, Aged, Fiction, erotica, general, Aging, psychological aspects, Older people, family relationships, Older people, care, Parents, Health Services for the Aged

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Table of Contents

First things : the foundations of a new family understanding
The eight stages of late life
Station 1: Stability : "Everything is just fine dear."
Mom
Station 2: Compromise : "Mom's having a little problem."
Dad
Station 3: Crisis : "I can't believe she's in the hospital."
Sister
Station 4: Recovery : "She'll be with us for a while."
Rehabilitation nurse
Station 5: Decline : "We can't expect much more."
Visiting nurse
Station 6: Prelude to dying : "I sense a change in her spirit."
Nurse in long-term care
Station 7: Death : "You'd better come now."
Hospice nurse
Station 8: Grieving/legacy : "We did the right things..."
Brother
Epilogue
Slow medicine websites
Slow medicine reading
Slow medicine cinema.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-245) and index.

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New York, NY
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Dewey Decimal Class
306.874084/6, 362.6
Library of Congress
HQ1063.6 M367 2008, HQ1063.6M367 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 263 p. ;
Number of pages
263

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OL20749947M
Internet Archive
mymotheryourmoth00mccu
ISBN 10
0061243027
ISBN 13
9780061243028
LCCN
2008299594
OCLC/WorldCat
156818260
Library Thing
4896806
Goodreads
2900695

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Family doctor and geriatrician Dennis McCullough recommends a new approach to medical care for the elderly: 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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