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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. A long life should be embraced and celebrated, but it's not all easy. Yet even the most challenging situation can be helped by the right conversation. How do we start? 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.

ISBN-13: 9781405944434

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Random House UK

Publication Date: 10-01-2022

Pages: 320

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.19(h) x 1.00(d)

Lucy Pollock trained in medicine at Cambridge and at Bart's Hospital, and worked as a junior doctor in East London before moving to Somerset, where since 2001 she has been a consultant specializing in the care of those who are frail and elderly.

Table of Contents

Prologue ix

Author's Note xi

1 How to be Old 1

2 The Big Questions 11

3 Squaring the Curve - How to be Amazing 31

4 'Good News!' 55

5 Four Things About Falls 76

6 Not Doomed 100

7 Goldilocks Medicine 119

8 Choosing Wisely 142

9 'We Didn't Like to Say It' 162

10 Responding to Dementia 186

11 Driving 208

12 Decisions 223

13 Advance Care Plans 243

14 A Delicate Question 264

15 'I Know You've Got to Do It' 285

16 Capacity 301

17 Attorney 316

18 Not Lost 328

19 Lap of Honour 346

Epilogue 363

Acknowledgements 378

Index 382