9780674021488-0674021487-The Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies

The Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies

ISBN-13: 9780674021488
ISBN-10: 0674021487
Edition: 1
Author: Muriel R. Gillick
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780674021488
ISBN-10: 0674021487
Edition: 1
Author: Muriel R. Gillick
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover 352 pages

Summary

The Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies (ISBN-13: 9780674021488 and ISBN-10: 0674021487), written by authors Muriel R. Gillick, was published by Harvard University Press in 2006. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Gerontology (Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Gerontology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.5.

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You've argued politics with your aunt since high school, but failing eyesight now prevents her from keeping current with the newspaper. Your mother fractured her hip last year and is confined to a wheelchair. Your father has Alzheimer's and only occasionally recognizes you.

Someday, as Muriel Gillick points out in this important yet unsettling book, you too will be old. And no matter what vitamin regimen you're on now, you will likely one day find yourself sick or frail. How do you prepare? What will you need?

With passion and compassion, Gillick chronicles the stories of elders who have struggled with housing options, with medical care decisions, and with finding meaning in life. Skillfully incorporating insights from medicine, health policy, and economics, she lays out action plans for individuals and for communities. In addition to doing all we can to maintain our health, we must vote and organize--for housing choices that consider autonomy as well as safety, for employment that utilizes the skills and wisdom of the elderly, and for better management of disability and chronic disease.

Most provocatively, Gillick argues against desperate attempts to cure the incurable. Care should focus on quality of life, not whether it can be prolonged at any cost.

"A good old age," writes Gillick, "is within our grasp." But we must reach in the right direction.

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