Lucy Pollock Reihenfolge der Bücher

Pre-order the latest book from Dr Lucy Pollock, a wise, compassionate and helpful guide to ageing with confidence __________ Today, we are living longer lives, and have choices now as never before about how we will age. What will make us happy? What are we frightened of, and what might allay those fears? What changes, made right now, will help us to flourish as we age? This book contains lessons I've learned from thirty years of working with older people and those close to them. It looks at problems that can be fixed with tests and tablets, and problems that require a different sort of medicine. I explain what I have been taught about loss, about impossible families, about becoming older without children, and the important things I have learned about sexuality, race, love, and living with uncertainty. The power has been in the wrong place for too long - medical teams have not always heard the voices of older people or those who love them. But if we are given power to influence the lives of our future selves, how best shall we use it? What do we want? What difference can we make? This is the moment for us to act, to set in place a better society for older people, and to build the future we want for ourselves. __________

This honest and compassionate guide addresses the complexities of aging, covering topics from dementia to finances and care homes. It emphasizes the importance of discussing aging openly, especially as many people are living longer. Dr. Lucy provides answers to both voiced and unvoiced questions about ensuring a happy and healthy later life for ourselves and our loved ones. The book facilitates crucial conversations about growing older, tackling questions such as how to initiate discussions about health, the implications of multiple medications, the emotional challenges of dementia, driving safety, and the qualities of good care homes. It also explores the balance between independence and safety, as well as the difficult topics of resuscitation and treatment decisions. Blending seriousness with humor and kindness, this accessible guide helps navigate the essential conversations surrounding aging, focusing on what truly matters in the second half of life.

We are all apprentice old people. More and more of us are living to a very great age. But how do we give those we love, and eventually ourselves, a chance to be older as happily and healthily as we possibly can? Dr Lucy's book looks at answers, to questions big and small, and helps us understand that long life is something to be celebrated and embraced. Most situations, she tells us, are solvable. Is it normal to find you're falling out of love with your partner of many years, who is disappearing into dementia? When does 'fiercely independent' turn into 'badly behaved'? How do you navigate the near impossible discussions around resuscitation, intensity of treatments, power of attorney? How do you get doctors to listen? Should your mother be taking seven different medicines? Are we all doomed to an incontinent future? Should Dad be driving, and if not, who can stop him? What does a good care home look like? This practical book, full of warmth, humour, philosophy, joy and real-life stories, is by a doctor who has worked her entire career as a geriatrician, caring for people who have complicated problems and who need answers to the delicate questions that arise as we get older. In the end, it comes down to finding a way to talk about it all with the people we love as well as the professionals. Only then, perhaps, can we make a better life for the older people in our families and communities and, ultimately, for ourselves

Wir werden immer älter. Doch wie können wir unsere gewonnene Lebenszeit – und die unserer Angehörigen – so glücklich und gut wie möglich gestalten? Antworten gibt die Geriaterin Dr. Lucy Pollock anhand von vielen Beispielen aus ihrem Arbeitsalltag. Voller Mitgefühl und Humor beschreibt sie die Probleme, die ihr während ihres jahrzehntelangen Umgangs mit alten Menschen häufig begegnet sind. Und sie zeigt Lösungswege auf, nach denen wir alle als Angehörige oder mit zunehmendem Alter suchen. Dabei untermauert die Autorin die Bedeutung des offenen Gesprächs und macht so den Leser*innen Mut, auch heikle Themen an-zusprechen. »Viele Dinge werden leichter, wenn wir darüber reden. Die Autorin, ei- ne renommierte Geriatrie-Ärztin, teilt ihr Wissen mit viel Humor, Güte und Herzlichkeit.« Vital