
The Book About Getting Older
The essential comforting guide to ageing with wise advice for the highs and lows
By: Lucy Pollock
Paperback | 20 September 2022 | Edition Number 1
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'The most important book about the second half of your life you'll ever read. I wish everyone in the UK could be under Dr Lucy's care' SANDI TOKSVIG
'This warm and compassionate book gets to the heart of older age' THE BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY
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Now more than ever, we need to talk about getting older.
Many of us are living to a very great age. But how do we give those we love, and eventually ourselves, long lives that are as happy and healthy as possible?
Dr Lucy's book gives us answers to the questions we can voice - and those that we can't. This essential guide will guide you through those important conversations around growing older, answering every question you might have, including:
· How do we start the conversation?
· How do we ask whether it's worth taking seven different medicines?
· Is it normal to find you're falling out of love with someone, as they disappear into dementia?
· Should Dad be driving, and if not, who can stop him?
· What are the secrets of the best care homes?
· When does fierce independence become bad behaviour?
· How do you navigate near-impossible discussions around resuscitation and intensity of treatments?
· And who decides what happens when we become ill?
Serious, funny, kind and knowledgeable, this readable book helps guide us through essential conversations about getting older that go straight to the heart of what matters most.
About the Author
Lucy Pollock trained in medicine at Cambridge and at Bart's Hospital, and worked as a junior doctor in East London before moving to Somerset, where since 2001 she has been a consultant specializing in the care of those who are frail and elderly.
ISBN: 9781405944434
ISBN-10: 1405944439
Published: 20th September 2022
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 400
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Penguin UK
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 2.4 x 12.8 x 19.6
Weight (kg): 0.28
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- Non-FictionFamily & HealthCoping with / Advice about Personal, Social & Health TopicsCoping with Old Age / Advice about Ageing
- Non-FictionSociety & CultureSocial GroupsAge GroupsAge Groups for AdultsAge Groups for The Elderly
- Non-FictionPsychologyPsychology of Ageing
- Non-FictionMedicinePre-Clinical Medicine & Basic SciencesHuman Reproduction, Growth & DevelopmentHuman Growth & DevelopmentMaturation & Ageing
- Non-FictionFamily & HealthPopular Medicine & Health
- Non-FictionSelf-Help, Personal Development & Practical Advice