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The Book About Getting Older

The essential comforting guide to ageing with wise advice for the highs and lows

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The Book About Getting Older

Auteur(s): Lucy Pollock
Narrateur(s): Lucy Pollock
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Brought to you by Penguin.

The most important book you'll ever read about the second half of your life now.

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.

© Lucy Pollock 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

 Développement personnel Parent vieillissant Psychologie Psychologie et santé mentale Relations Éducation des enfants Démence Drôle Médecine Maladie d’Alzheimer

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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, but this is the next best thing
A lovely, thoughtful, caring and informative book which will help very many people (Ed Balls)
Dr Lucy Pollock offers useful tips about thorny subjects such as choosing medications and identifying dementia
Interesting and engaging . . . Eminently readable prose. The tone throughout is warm and friendly, even as serious and dark subjects are under discussion. It is an important book
Wise, compassionate, well researched and very broad in its coverage. I've learnt a lot that will help me both as a doctor and a patient. Thank you (Dr Phil Hammond)
Dr Pollock writes with spirit and empathy, making this an engaging and thought-provoking read. Anyone struggling with old age will feel less alone for having Dr Pollock on their team
Terrific . . . I suggest we all get a copy of Dr Lucy's book
Serious, funny, kind and knowledgeable, this book helps guide us through essential conversations about issues of getting older
This warm and compassionate book gets to the heart of older age. Using stories and accessible explanations, it covers issues of declining health, quality of life and choices about the things that matter most. The BGS is delighted to endorse this universally relevant and approachable exploration of what it means to get older
Kind, touching and, at times, achingly funny. An enlightening - and important - read whatever your age. Dr Lucy Pollock is just the kind of healthcare professional you want by your side

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Whose isn't? This wonderfully humane and insightful book is delightfully read by the author, an experienced geriatrician. She emphasizes the twilight years of the very elderly, often within a year or so of their death. She is very specific about common issues like falling down for which she posits a possible 15 different causes, alone or in concert. And that is the point. The very old never have a single medical condition, treatable with one simple therapy or medication. She assembles, out of her depth of keen observation and insight very real patients exemplifying various issues. The final section deals with dying, with special emphasis on the patient's wishes, how to ascertain these wishes, and the nuances of a living will, medical power of attorney, and dealing with family members. Medical and legal allusions are British, but applicable in any country. Beautifully read, Dr Pollack's respect and love for her patients sparkles.

My biological clock is ticking.

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This book was so much more than I expected. She talks about things that have never been said about the really old and significantly disabled. At least I’ve never heard them talked about so frankly and yet also lovingly. I felt as if the author was actually holding my hand.

Best Book in Years

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