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Rethinking Aging : Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780807869239
  • 0807869236
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rethinking Aging : Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society.DDC classification:
  • 362.1084/6 362.10846
LOC classification:
  • RA564.8 .H335 2011
NLM classification:
  • WT 31
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 ENLIGHTENED AGING; 2 THE GOLDEN YEARS; 3 STAYIN' ALIVE; 4 THE AGED WORKER; 5 DECRPITUDE; 6 FRAILTY; 7 THE REAPER; 8 AUTUMN; Notes; About the Author; Index.
Summary: 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 lif.
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 ENLIGHTENED AGING; 2 THE GOLDEN YEARS; 3 STAYIN' ALIVE; 4 THE AGED WORKER; 5 DECRPITUDE; 6 FRAILTY; 7 THE REAPER; 8 AUTUMN; Notes; About the Author; Index.

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 lif.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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