Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly
In this moving and controversial Quarterly Essay, doctor and writer Karen Hitchcock investigates the treatment of the elderly and dying through some unforgettable cases. With honesty and deep experience, she looks at end-of-life decisions, frailty and dementia, over-treatment and escalating...
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In this moving and controversial Quarterly Essay, doctor and writer Karen Hitchcock investigates the treatment of the elderly and dying through some unforgettable cases. With honesty and deep experience, she looks at end-of-life decisions, frailty and dementia, over-treatment and escalating costs.Ours is a society in which ageism, often disguised, threatens to turn the eld
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ISBN:
9781863957168
Publisher: Black Inc Books
Pages no: 114
Edition language: English
Series: Quarterly Essay 0 (#57)
An excellent article. A lot of what she described I saw/experienced while I was an ambulance officer. It is one of the saddest things ever to listen to a person who has lived a full, caring and nurturing life, who has always there for others saying that the last thing they want is to be burden to ot...
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