Rethinking Aging Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society

Nortin M. Hadler, "Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0807835064, 1469652102 | 272 pages | PDF | 10.3 MB
For those fortunate enough to reside in the developed world, death before reaching a ripe old age is a tragedy, not a fact of life. Although aging and dying are not diseases, older Americans are subject to the most egregious marketing in the name of "successful aging" and "long life," as if both are commodities. In Rethinking Aging, Nortin M. Hadler examines health-care choices offered to aging Americans and argues that too often the choices serve to profit the provider rather than benefit the recipient, leading to the medicalization of everyday ailments and blatant overtreatment. Rethinking Aging forewarns and arms readers with evidence-based insights that facilitate health-promoting decision making.