Age/Old Questions: A Geriatrician’s Guide to Aging
What’s Normal, What’s Not, and What You Can DO
Part 1: Aging 101
1. It’s Only Aging: Get a Grip!
2. Seventy-five isn’t Fifty (and 50 wasn’t 25)
3. Medication Effects, or Why you Become a Cheaper Drunk as You Age
4. An Ounce of Prevention
5. What Really Matters: Difficult Discussions and Decisions
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Do I need to leave my home?
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Should I retire from driving?
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Do I need to do everything my doctors advise?
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If I’m unable to make decisions for myself, who will make them for me? Will they do what I want done?
Part 2: My Patient’s Top Concerns
6. Mind Matters
7. Energy cycles
8. Ups and Downs
9. Balancing acts
10. Sleepy-time
11. Urine Trouble
12. All Eyes and Ears
13. Aches and Pains
14. Gut Feelings
15. Weighing In
16. Sexual Activities