Treat Me, Not My Age: A Doctor's Guide to Getting the Best Care as You or a Lovedone Gets Older

by Mark Lachs

Book Overview

A must-have manual for anyone 40+ to take control of their health in a broken health-care system. Too often our culture defines the aging process negatively, instead of embracing it as a natural part of life. Nowhere is this problem more pronounced than in our health-care system, where "ageist" medicine often serves to worsen our medical issues instead of helping us figure out how to address or avoid them. Whether we're forty or eighty, what we need...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670022101
• ISBN13: 9780670022106
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher