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.
Author: Dennis Mccullough
Hardcover: 288 pages
Company: Harper (2008-02-01) (2008-02-05)
ISBN: 0061243027
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This quality product is 8 x 10 in size. It is double matted. Verse is……Looking Back, Mom……Until I became much older, Mom……There was just no way I could know,……The sacrifices you must have made,……As you watched your children grow…….I didn’t consider how tired you were,……At the end of every long day,……Or appreciate the meals you cooked………I was clueless, I guess you could say…….I never thought of the time you spent,……Tending to all of our needs,……Putting us first each step of the way………And that’s how your life story reads…….Now, without question, I understand,……A phrase that still rings in my ear,……”There’s a special place in heaven for Moms”……Looking back…makes it all the more clear!……
