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The Book About Getting Older

by Lucy Pollock
The Book About Getting Older - Thryft
The Book About Getting Older - Thryft

A compassionate guide to navigate growing older.

This book could be a good read for anyone who is approaching or caring for someone in their old age. Dr. Lucy's compassionate approach and insightful advice can help guide you through the essential conversations and challenges that come with getting older. With a mix of humor, kindness, and knowledge, this book tackles the difficult questions we often avoid, ensuring that the long lives of ourselves and our loved ones are as happy and healthy as possible.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Book About Getting Older

by Lucy Pollock
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ISBN: 9781405944434
Authors: Lucy Pollock
Publisher: Penguin
Date of Publication: 2022-10-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.3
(rated by 250 readers)

Description

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. A long life should be embraced and celebrated, but it's not all easy. Yet even the most challenging situation can be helped by the right conversation. How do we start? 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.
 

A compassionate guide to navigate growing older.

This book could be a good read for anyone who is approaching or caring for someone in their old age. Dr. Lucy's compassionate approach and insightful advice can help guide you through the essential conversations and challenges that come with getting older. With a mix of humor, kindness, and knowledge, this book tackles the difficult questions we often avoid, ensuring that the long lives of ourselves and our loved ones are as happy and healthy as possible.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.