My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing “Slow Medicine,” the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones
Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 March 2010 08:21 Written by admin Wednesday, 24 March 2010 08:21
- ISBN13: 9780061243035
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
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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I bought this book at the recommendation of someone else and was very disappointed in its superficiality. Anyone with a modicum of common sense could figure out on her own how to handle the problems raised in this book. I’ve been working through the process of aging with my own parents and found nothing new here to help me. I thought the author was, at times, quite patronizing. I’m not sure who his intended audience was, but it was not me. AKA Cooper
Rating: 1 / 5
A great guide for dealing with aging parents but it doesn’t offer any guidance when dealing with a parent who is abusive but in need of care.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book was excellent. It was very readable and very helpful to me in understanding how one deals with the decline we all face with loved ones, and eventually ourselves, at the end of life. Don’t be put off by the “Slow Medicine” in the title, that is not really any different than just doing what makes sense.
Rating: 5 / 5
I think this was written primarily for the adult children who will some day care for their parents. It describes very carefully the stages of care that aging people will require as the process progresses. However, as one who is in the process of aging myself, I found this book extremely helpful to prepare for the inevitable. While we all know that the lucky ones will age – hopefully gracefully – this book drove home to me the inexorable nature of the process. It has caused me to plan and take actions that I would have otherwise put off. My children and I should be the better for it.
Rating: 5 / 5
This story, and it is a story, about the struggle by children and parents as the older generation begins to fail. It is more than that because the author articulates the challenges both as a son and as a doctor. It is best read before the crisis.
Rating: 5 / 5