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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Artist
- Hadler, Nortin M.
- Book Title
- Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated S
- ISBN
- 9780807835067
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
0807835064
ISBN-13
9780807835067
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109146426
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Rethinking Aging : Growing Old and Living WELLIN an Overtreated Society
Publication Year
2011
Subject
Gerontology, Health Care Delivery, Sociology / General, General, Healthy Living, Geriatrics
Features
New Edition
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Health & Fitness, Social Science, Medical
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-006663
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"With passion and enthusiasm, Hadler offers a doctor's perspective that could prove useful for many people struggling to make better choices and increase wellness as they age." - Foreword, "Refreshing. . . . All nurses working with older people will gain a great deal from this book, particularly with regard to prevention. This book challenges our thinking on growing old and living well, and is highly recommended." - Nursing Standard, "An unflinching and rational dissection of the anti-aging field from one of the most respected voices in the health care debate today. Like Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman, Dr. Hadler's scalpel has an uncanny ability to separate facts from hype and make us reexamine every screening test and treatment we take for granted as effective." -P. Murali Doraiswamy, senior fellow, Duke Center for the Study of Aging, and coauthor, Living Well After An Alzheimer's Diagnosis, With this thoughtful guide, Hadler urges better options for end-of-life care than a lonely, traumatic last stop at the hospital.-- Publishers Weekly, "With this thoughtful guide, Hadler urges better options for end-of-life care than a lonely, traumatic last stop at the hospital." - Publishers Weekly, "A book for all readers entering the aging years, especially those who wish to avoid unnecessary and futile tests and procedures . . . . Rethinking Aging is a sobering book, calling for a careful and blunt dialogue about end-of-life and aging issues. It should evoke much discussion and debate about the proper application of medicine and surgery in the aging population." -- Clifton K. Meador, MD, JAMA, "Refreshing. . . . All nurses working with older people will gain a great deal from this book, particularly with regard to prevention. This book challenges our thinking on growing old and living well, and is highly recommended." -- Nursing Standard, "[Hadler's] questioning of many conventional practices is refreshing and important. . . . 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 Journal, [Hadler has] provided his readers with valuable perspective that should make it easier for them to captain the ships of their own health.-- The Carrboro Citizen, [Hadler has] provided his readers with valuable perspective that should make it easier for them to captain the ships of their own health. -- The Carrboro Citizen, "With passion and enthusiasm, Hadler offers a doctor's perspective that could prove useful for many people struggling to make better choices and increase wellness as they age." -- ForeWord Reviews, A book for all readers entering the aging years, especially those who wish to avoid unnecessary and futile tests and procedures . . . . Rethinking Aging is a sobering book, calling for a careful and blunt dialogue about end-of-life and aging issues. It should evoke much discussion and debate about the proper application of medicine and surgery in the aging population.--Clifton K. Meador, MD, JAMA, With passion and enthusiasm, Hadler offers a doctor's perspective that could prove useful for many people struggling to make better choices and increase wellness as they age.-- ForeWord Reviews, "A book for all readers entering the aging years, especially those who wish to avoid unnecessary and futile tests and procedures... Rethinking Aging is a sobering book, calling for a careful and blunt dialogue about the end-of-life and aging issues. It should evoke much discussion and debate about the proper application of medicine and surgery in the aging population." -Clifton K. Meador, MD JAMA, "All Americans over the age of 45 as well as health care providers and political leaders should read this book. . . . Hadler provides useful insights into successful aging within the context of this challenging system. Highly recommended."-- Choice, [Hadler's] questioning of many conventional practices is refreshing and important. . . . 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 Journal, Refreshing. . . . All nurses working with older people will gain a great deal from this book, particularly with regard to prevention. This book challenges our thinking on growing old and living well, and is highly recommended.-- Nursing Standard, "With this thoughtful guide, Hadler urges better options for end-of-life care than a lonely, traumatic last stop at the hospital." -- Publishers Weekly, With passion and enthusiasm, Hadler offers a doctor's perspective that could prove useful for many people struggling to make better choices and increase wellness as they age. -- ForeWord Reviews, With this thoughtful guide, Hadler urges better options for end-of-life care than a lonely, traumatic last stop at the hospital. -- Publishers Weekly, "All Americans over the age of 45 as well as health care providers and political leaders should read this book. . . . Hadler provides useful insights into successful aging within the context of this challenging system. Highly recommended." -- CHOICE, "[Hadler has] provided his readers with valuable perspective that should make it easier for them to captain the ships of their own health."-- - The Carrboro Citizen, "Refreshing. . . . All nurses working with older people will gain a great deal from this book, particularly with regard to prevention. This book challenges our thinking on growing old and living well, and is highly recommended."-- Nursing Standard, "All Americans over the age of 45 as well as health care providers and political leaders should read this book. . . . Hadler provides useful insights into successful aging within the context of this challenging system. Highly recommended." - Choice, A book for all readers entering the aging years, especially those who wish to avoid unnecessary and futile tests and procedures . . . . Rethinking Aging is a sobering book, calling for a careful and blunt dialogue about end-of-life and aging issues. It should evoke much discussion and debate about the proper application of medicine and surgery in the aging population. -- Clifton K. Meador, MD, JAMA, All Americans over the age of 45 as well as health care providers and political leaders should read this book. . . . Hadler provides useful insights into successful aging within the context of this challenging system. Highly recommended. -- CHOICE, A book for all readers entering the aging years, especially those who wish to avoid unnecessary and futile tests and procedures . . . . Rethinking Aging is a sobering book, calling for a careful and blunt dialogue about end-of-life and aging issue|9780807835067|, "Dr. Hadler has done an amazing job at engendering the debate on aging and medical care." -William J. Hall, Fine Professor of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine Center for Healthy Aging, "[Hadler's] questioning of many conventional practices is refreshing and important. . . . 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 Journal, "With passion and enthusiasm, Hadler offers a doctor's perspective that could prove useful for many people struggling to make better choices and increase wellness as they age."-- ForeWord Reviews, [Hadler's] questioning of many conventional practices is refreshing and important. . . . 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|9780807835067|, Refreshing. . . . All nurses working with older people will gain a great deal from this book, particularly with regard to prevention. This book challenges our thinking on growing old and living well, and is highly recommended. -- Nursing Standard, "[Hadler has] provided his readers with valuable perspective that should make it easier for them to captain the ships of their own health."-- The Carrboro Citizen, "[Hadler's] questioning of many conventional practices is refreshing and important. . . . 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 Journal, "Nortin Hadler challenges much conventional wisdom about aging with insight and verve. You may not embrace all of his views, but you will agree that his approach is often original and always thought provoking." -Jerome Groopman, M.D., Recanati Professor, Harvard Medical School, Author of How Doctors Think, "A book for all readers entering the aging years, especially those who wish to avoid unnecessary and futile tests and procedures . . . . Rethinking Aging is a sobering book, calling for a careful and blunt dialogue about end-of-life and aging issues. It should evoke much discussion and debate about the proper application of medicine and surgery in the aging population."--Clifton K. Meador, MD, JAMA, "[Hadler has] provided his readers with valuable perspective that should make it easier for them to captain the ships of their own health." -- The Carrboro Citizen, All Americans over the age of 45 as well as health care providers and political leaders should read this book. . . . Hadler provides useful insights into successful aging within the context of this challenging system. Highly recommended.-- Choice, [Hadler's] questioning of many conventional practices is refreshing and important. . . . 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 Journal, "With this thoughtful guide, Hadler urges better options for end-of-life care than a lonely, traumatic last stop at the hospital."-- Publishers Weekly
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
362.1084/6
Edition Description
New Edition
Synopsis
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. 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. In Rethinking Aging, Nortin M. 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. 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. Only the rigorous demonstration of efficacy is adequate reassurance of a treatment's value, he argues; if it cannot be shown that a particular treatment will benefit the patient, one should proceed with caution. 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. 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. 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. In Rethinking Aging , Nortin M. 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. Rethinking Aging forewarns and arms readers with evidence-based insights that facilitate health-promoting decision making.Over the past decades, Hadler has established himself as a leading voice among those who approach the menu of health-care choices with informed skepticism. Only the rigorous demonstration of efficacy is adequate reassurance of a treatment's value, he argues; if it cannot be shown that a particular treatment will benefit the patient, one should proceed with caution. 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. 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. 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. In Rethinking Aging , Nortin M. 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. Rethinking Aging forewarns and arms readers with evidence-based insights that facilitate health-promoting decision making. Over the past decades, Hadler has established himself as a leading voice among those who approach the menu of health-care choices with informed skepticism. Only the rigorous demonstration of efficacy is adequate reassurance of a treatment's value, he argues; if it cannot be shown that a particular treatment will benefit the patient, one should proceed with caution. 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. The challenges of aging and dying, he eloquently assures us, can be faced with sophistication, confidence, and grace.
LC Classification Number
RA564.8.H335 2011
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