What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Getting Older

Download or read book What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Getting Older written by Mark Lachs, M.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aging well frequently involves feeling your way blindly through a complex medical world: dealing with multiple doctors, facing baffling financial decisions, and figuring out whether you or a parent needs care outside the home. What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Getting Older turns the lights on, illuminating potential pitfalls and showing a way around them. This book is an indispensible survival guide, gathering all the information you need to have but that too often doctors just don't give you. Writing with great experience and good humor, renowned geriatrician Mark Lachs explains how to choose your doctors, stay out of the emergency room, plan financially for retirement, outfit your house to stay safe, and, most important, how to have as many healthy years as possible.