Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.26 (692 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807835064 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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A book for all readers entering the aging years, especially those who wish to avoid unnecessary and futile tests and procedures . Highly recommended.--Choice. In pleading for caution and clinical wisdom, he also offers a partial solution to the huge problem of how we might afford to provide good medical care for old people.--British Medical JournalHadler has provided his readers with valuable perspective that should make it easier for them to captain the ships of their own health.--The Carrboro CitizenAll Americans over the age of 45 as well as health care providers and political leaders should read this book. Rethinking Aging is a sobering book, calling for a careful and blunt dialogue about end-of-life and aging issues. Meador, MD, JAMAHadler advocates informed decision making pertaining to all stages of aging.--Library JournalHadler argues for holding med
Hadler examines health-care choices offered to aging Americans and argues that too often the choices serve to profit the provider rather than benefit the recipient, leading to the medicalization of everyday ailments and blatant overtreatment. Although aging and dying are not diseases, older Americans are subject to the most egregious marketing in the name of "successful aging" and "long life," as if both are commodities. Rethinking Aging forewarns and arms readers with evidence-based insights that facilitate health-promoting decision making.Over the past decade, Hadler has established himself as a leading voice among those who approach the menu of health-care choices with informed skepticism. The challenges of aging and dying, he eloquently assures us, can be faced with sophistication, confidence, and grace.. For those fortunate enough to reside in the developed world, death before reaching a ripe old age is a tragedy, not a fact of life. In Rethinking Aging, Hadler offers a doctor's perspective on the medical literature as well as his long clinical experience to help readers assess their health-care options and make informed medical choices in the last decades of life. In Rethinking Aging, Nortin M. Only the rigorous demonstration of efficacy is adequate reassurance of a treatment's value, he arg
Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society My 89 year old mother had a stroke in April. Due to her advanced age and increasing health problems I thought after the stroke she should receive palliative care till she died. I was almost shocked to experience the exact opposite from the health care system. She was provided, with little discussion with her family, the most expensive testing and life saving treatment available. Since she was a big believer in our wonderful health care system she visited her doctors frequently prior to the stroke and followed all their advice which included taking at least 7 pharmaceutical drug and m. "Excellent" according to Abacus. This is the author's third book investigating medicine shortcomings. The first two were: The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System and Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman). They are all excellent. Hadler has extensive firsthand experience as a doctor, a med school professor, a clinician, and a medical investigator. Thus, he is well equipped to evaluate what works and what does not in modern medicine.Hadler's main beef is that U.S. health care "medicalizes" normal conditions by undertaking t. eddie vos said Doctors will come off their pedestals when patients come off their knees A vital book for aging healthy.. Parts of this book are not easy reads but others are, and they are oh so vital when contemplating a medical test or another scheduled doctors visit but when there is no obvious benefit resulting. "Properly" prescribed drugs kill a patient every 5 minutes in U.S. hospitals. Drugs impoverish systems and patients while treating the "risk factors" of normal aging that are simply numbers in a lab report.Here is the accumulated wisdom of an exceptionally wise senior physician who dared calling into question medical interventions and tests without hard and clear patient benefit such as pla