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Author's Note | p. xi |
Prologue: Finding Our Better Selves | p. 3 |
The Early Heroic Rush | p. 16 |
The Myth of Assisted Living | p. 33 |
The Vestiges of Family Medicine | p. 53 |
A Job for Professionals | p. 72 |
The Best Doctors Money Can Buy | p. 92 |
September Eleventh | p. 110 |
September Twelfth | p. 128 |
The Biology, Sociology, and Psychology of Aging | p. 145 |
A Nursing Home Thanksgiving | p. 168 |
The Make-A-Wish Foundation | p. 185 |
Follow the Money | p. 201 |
Therapeutic Fibs | p. 219 |
Cruel Sorting | p. 239 |
As Complicated as a Rubik's Cube | p. 252 |
The Time for Talking | p. 268 |
N-O-W | p. 286 |
Dying Days | p. 300 |
Orphans | p. 312 |
Epilogue: Lost and Found | p. 320 |
Resources | |
Government sites | |
General Information and Research | |
Housing, Care Management, and Other Services | |
Caregiving | |
Legal and Financial | |
End of Life | |
Advocacy | |
Alzheimer's Disease | |
Other Diseases | |
Aging in Place | |
Miscellaneous | p. 323 |
Acknowledgments | p. 333 |
Index | p. 337 |
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