Dear Life

On Caring for the Elderly

Karen Hitchcock (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2016
Black Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-86395-816-5 (ISBN)

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The elderly, the frailaareaour society. They are our parents and grandparents, our carers and neighbours, and they are every one of us in the not-too-distant futurea...They are not a growing cost to be managed or a burden to be shifted or a horror to be hidden away, but people whose needs require us to change' In Dear Life, using vivid and moving case studies, Karen Hitchcock show what care for the elderly and dying is really like u both the good and the bad. With honesty and deep experience, she looks at end-of-life decisions and over-treatment, frailty and dementia. Throughout she argues against the creeping tendency to see the elderly as a 'burden' u difficult, hopeless, expensive and homogenous. We must plan for a future when more of us will be old, Hitchcock argues, with the aim of making that time better, not shorter. An we must change our institution and society to meet the needs of an ageing population. Dear Life is a landmark book by one of Australia's most powerful writers.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.03.2016
Verlagsort	Melbourne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	132 x 198 mm
Gewicht	158 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-86395-816-9 / 1863958169
ISBN-13	978-1-86395-816-5 / 9781863958165
Zustand	Neuware