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"The honest, compassionate and vital guide to getting older, from dementia to finances, medication to care homes 'The most important book about the second half of your life you'll ever read. I wish everyone in the UK could be under Dr Lucy's care' SANDI TOKSVIG 'This warm and compassionate book gets to the heart of older age' THE BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY ________ 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. This essential guide will guide you through those important conversations around growing older, answering every question you might have, including: · How do we start the conversation? · 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 readable book helps guide us through essential conversations about getting older that go straight to the heart of what matters most" -- ONIX annotation

We are all apprentice old people. More and more of us are living to a very great age. But how do we give those we love, and eventually ourselves, a chance to be older as happily and healthily as we possibly can? Dr Lucy's book looks at answers, to questions big and small, and helps us understand that long life is something to be celebrated and embraced. Most situations, she tells us, are solvable. Is it normal to find you're falling out of love with your partner of many years, who is disappearing into dementia? When does 'fiercely independent' turn into 'badly behaved'? How do you navigate the near impossible discussions around resuscitation, intensity of treatments, power of attorney? How do you get doctors to listen? Should your mother be taking seven different medicines? Are we all doomed to an incontinent future? Should Dad be driving, and if not, who can stop him? What does a good care home look like? This practical book, full of warmth, humour, philosophy, joy and real-life stories, is by a doctor who has worked her entire career as a geriatrician, caring for people who have complicated problems and who need answers to the delicate questions that arise as we get older. In the end, it comes down to finding a way to talk about it all with the people we love as well as the professionals. Only then, perhaps, can we make a better life for the older people in our families and communities and, ultimately, for ourselves

Pre-order the latest book from Dr Lucy Pollock, a wise, compassionate and helpful guide to ageing with confidence __________ Today, we are living longer lives, and have choices now as never before about how we will age. What will make us happy? What are we frightened of, and what might allay those fears? What changes, made right now, will help us to flourish as we age? This book contains lessons I've learned from thirty years of working with older people and those close to them. It looks at problems that can be fixed with tests and tablets, and problems that require a different sort of medicine. I explain what I have been taught about loss, about impossible families, about becoming older without children, and the important things I have learned about sexuality, race, love, and living with uncertainty. The power has been in the wrong place for too long - medical teams have not always heard the voices of older people or those who love them. But if we are given power to influence the lives of our future selves, how best shall we use it? What do we want? What difference can we make? This is the moment for us to act, to set in place a better society for older people, and to build the future we want for ourselves. __________

Wir werden immer älter. Doch wie können wir unsere gewonnene Lebenszeit – und die unserer Angehörigen – so glücklich und gut wie möglich gestalten? Antworten gibt die Geriaterin Dr. Lucy Pollock anhand von vielen Beispielen aus ihrem Arbeitsalltag. Voller Mitgefühl und Humor beschreibt sie die Probleme, die ihr während ihres jahrzehntelangen Umgangs mit alten Menschen häufig begegnet sind. Und sie zeigt Lösungswege auf, nach denen wir alle als Angehörige oder mit zunehmendem Alter suchen. Dabei untermauert die Autorin die Bedeutung des offenen Gesprächs und macht so den Leser*innen Mut, auch heikle Themen an-zusprechen. »Viele Dinge werden leichter, wenn wir darüber reden. Die Autorin, ei- ne renommierte Geriatrie-Ärztin, teilt ihr Wissen mit viel Humor, Güte und Herzlichkeit.« Vital