What Your Doctor Won’t Tell You About Getting Older: An Insider’s Survival Manual for Outsmarting the Health-Care System-Quality Guarantee

Description

Aging well frequently involves feeling your way blindly through acomplex medical world: dealing with multiple doctors, facing bafflingfinancial decisions, and figuring out whether you or a parent needscare outside the home. What Your Doctor Won’t Tell You About GettingOlder turns the lights on, illuminating potential pitfalls andshowing a way around them. This book is an indispensible survivalguide, gathering all the information you need to have but that toooften doctors just don’t give you. Writing with great experience andgood humor, renowned geriatrician Mark Lachs explains how to chooseyour doctors, stay out of the emergency room, plan financially forretirement, outfit your house to stay safe, and, most important, how tohave as many healthy years as possible.