Ageing, Healthy, and in Control: An Alternative Approach to Maintaining the Health of Older People |
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... happening to their bodies . Many people find the increasing impersonalization of medical treatment difficult to accept ; even the family doctor is increasingly seen as an extension of medical machinery . There is increasing evidence ...
... happening to their bodies . Many people find the increasing impersonalization of medical treatment difficult to accept ; even the family doctor is increasingly seen as an extension of medical machinery . There is increasing evidence ...
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... accomplish this is the individual , who needs to be released from the medical constraints which currently prevent this from happening . 5 Escaping the psychology of medical ageism : reasserting personal 63 A WIDER PROBLEM , A WIDER ...
... accomplish this is the individual , who needs to be released from the medical constraints which currently prevent this from happening . 5 Escaping the psychology of medical ageism : reasserting personal 63 A WIDER PROBLEM , A WIDER ...
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... happening in their lives . This is often based upon attitudes which suggest that older people should not feel emotional pain , should be protected from grief and , by doing so , removes from the individual an inviolable right to live ...
... happening in their lives . This is often based upon attitudes which suggest that older people should not feel emotional pain , should be protected from grief and , by doing so , removes from the individual an inviolable right to live ...
Contents
reasserting personal control | 64 |
combating loneliness | 82 |
Diet and nutrition | 98 |
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