Location: N/A Type: Audiobook
Timeline: N/A Genre: Non-fiction
Narration: Robert Petkoff - clear, easy to understand. Easy to listen to.
Review:
Stars: 5
I am not sure if this book is classified as self help exactly but I know it helped me. This author provided me with such thought provoking moments. As a child of aging parents, I felt this book gave me a perspective of how to be kind to how they may feel in the future. I may be able to provide better care now. I also now understand why it is so important to express my own desires to my loved ones as well. I recommend everyone read this and discuss with their family.
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Triggers:
Terminal illness
Cancer
Assisted suicide
Questions:
Have you been around or taken care of someone elderly?
If so, how did it change you as a person?
Different cultures care for their elderly differently. Americans put them in nursing homes or assisted living housing. Indians take care of their own family.
What are the pros and cons of each method?
Which method do you prefer?
What stops Americans from personally taking care of their elderly family members?
Independence is what we live for but it cannot always be sustained.
What are some reactions to the loss of independence you have seen or experienced?
Why do you think there is such a stigma towards the terms "geriatrics" and "elderly"?
A reason to live keeps people alive. Whether it is a family, a pet, a plant, or a responsibility.
What is an elderly person in your life's reason to live?
What is your current reason to live?
The book says that mortality is seen perspectively. When you're young you feel like death is far away. When you're old death feels close. But death can happen at any moment.
What helps you with your perspective of mortality?
Where are you on the spectrum of perspective?
Do you tend to go with the doctor who tells you what you want to hear or the doctor who is true but blunt?
Are you the patient who does as they are told (doctor knows best) or are you the patient who likes to make the decisions?
Have you experienced a shared decision making doctor experience?
What are your opinions of assisted suicide?
Is this method of death truly death with dignity?
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