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My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing "Slow Medicine," the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.8740846
EAN: 9780061243028
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0061243027
Label: Harper
Manufacturer: Harper
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: February 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper
Release Date: February 05, 2008
Studio: Harper
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Editorial Review: What's the right thing to do for mom and dad as they get older?
Thanks to advances in science and medicine, more of our parents are living longer than ever before. And though we are rewarded with more time with the people we love, we are also faced with new sets of complications—more diseases, more disability, more need for support and careful judgments. Yet while our health care system may help people live to an older age, it doesn't perform so well when decline eventually sets in. We want to do the best thing but are overwhelmed with the staggering choices we face.
Geriatrician Dennis McCullough has spent his life helping families to cope with their parents' aging and eventual final passage, experiences he faced with his own mother. In this comforting and much-needed book, he recommends a new approach, which he terms "Slow Medicine."
Shaped by common sense and kindness, grounded in traditional medicine yet receptive to alternative therapies, Slow Medicine advocates for careful anticipatory "attending" to an elder's changing needs rather than waiting for crises that force acute medical interventions—an approach that improves the quality of elders' extended late lives without bankrupting their families financially or emotionally. As Dr. McCullough argues, we need to learn that time and kindness are sometimes more important and humane at these late stages than state-of-the-art medical interventions.
My Mother, Your Mother will help you learn how to:
—form an early and strong partnership with your parents and siblings;
—strategize on connecting with doctors and other care providers;
—navigate medical crises;
—create a committed Advocacy Team;
—reach out with greater empathy and awareness; and
—face the end-of-life time with confidence and skill.
Although taking care of those who have always cared for us is not an easily navigated time of life, My Mother, Your Mother will help you and your family to prepare for this complex journey. This is not a plan for getting ready to die; it is a plan for understanding, for caring, and for helping those you love live well during their final years. And the time to start is now.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Excellent Book!
Highly recommend this book for anyone dealing with an aging parent. It is very comprehensive yet well organized into the different stages of "decline", and user friendly. I have found it to be a great comfort and a good resource in dealing with my 82 year old mother who is in the beginning stages of senile dementia and is having a difficult time understanding that she can no longer live safely in her own home.
Rating: - Excellent resource
I found this book helpful and sensitive on a subject near to my heart. I learned some things I'm doing right and things I can do better. Also am better prepared for the future. I wish the author were my mother's doctor!
Rating:  - Nothing More than Common Sense
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:  - Great Guide for Dealing with Elder Care
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: - Outstanding resource, beautifully written
This book is fabulous! While I am not currently caring for an aging loved one, I know that someday I will face the difficult events and choices so eloquently described in the book. Dr. McCullough empowers the reader to anticipate downstream issues and his book is stocked with strategies to help prepare us to deal with the complex issues of fragmented care. I recommend this book to everyone!
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