Listen to a short interview with Dr. Muriel Gillick Host: Chris
Gondek ] Producer: Heron & Crane
You've argued politics with your aunt since high school, but
failing eyesight now prevents her from keeping current with the
newspaper. Your mother fractured her hip last year and is confined
to a wheelchair. Your father has Alzheimer's and only occasionally
recognizes you.
Someday, as Muriel Gillick points out in this important yet
unsettling book, you too will be old. And no matter what vitamin
regimen you're on now, you will likely one day find yourself sick
or frail. How do you prepare? What will you need?
With passion and compassion, Gillick chronicles the stories of
elders who have struggled with housing options, with medical care
decisions, and with finding meaning in life. Skillfully
incorporating insights from medicine, health policy, and economics,
she lays out action plans for individuals and for communities. In
addition to doing all we can to maintain our health, we must vote
and organize--for housing choices that consider autonomy as well as
safety, for employment that utilizes the skills and wisdom of the
elderly, and for better management of disability and chronic
disease.
Most provocatively, Gillick argues against desperate attempts to
cure the incurable. Care should focus on quality of life, not
whether it can be prolonged at any cost.
"A good old age," writes Gillick, "is within our grasp." But we
must reach in the right direction.
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