
The Book About Getting Older
The essential comforting guide to ageing with wise advice for the highs and lows
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Narrated by:
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Lucy Pollock
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Lucy Pollock
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
The most important audiobook you'll ever listen to about the second half of your life.
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 audiobook helps guide us through essential conversations about getting older that go straight to the heart of what matters most.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- fishface42
- 2022-02-20
My biological clock is ticking.
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.
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- Very Pleased in Calgary
- 2022-12-26
Best Book in Years
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.
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