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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik |
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VIEILLIER, LA BELLE AFFAIRE
Stéphane Lemire Jacques Beaulieu
Garder son pouvoir d'agir
A comprehensive guide to everything that happens as we age, with tips for slowing down the process and adapting to the changes.
DESCRIPTION
This complete, accessible guide presents the holistic medical approach to aging behind geriatrician Dr. Stéphane Lemire's inspiring social geriatrics project. Dr. Lemire sets out to deflate all our preconceived ideas about aging by proving how we can remain highly functional at the most advanced of ages. He takes an empathetic approach to explaining physical concerns including mobility, osteoporosis, fragility syndrome, nutrition, drugs and medication follow-up and the combined effects of polymedication as well as exploring mental aspects such as cognitive loss, psychological factors including grief and loneliness and material concerns such as managing personal finances and assets. According to the authors, when an elderly person begins to lose autonomy, it is important to start asking questions, determine the causes and try to address or reverse these concerns when possible.
EXCERPT
As time goes by, seniors can often expect to develop a range of chronic ailments and take medication as a result. When treated one by one, these issues are easy to control, biologically speaking. However, that doesn't necessarily mean the medication in question will have a beneficial effect on our functional capacity, because they may sometimes or often have undesirable side effects that actually bring about a functional decline. This book looks at the subject of pathological aging through the lens of the symptoms experienced by seniors, rather than taking an approach centred around the optimal treatment for each individual chronic illness from wich they may be suffering. The idea is to help seniors and their caregivers determine more easily
what might be bothering them. The book then aims to foster an understanding of what is happening, with a view to finding answers to one simple question: what are these symptoms a sign of? Because it's always asier to solve a problem when you know what caused it.
AUTHORS
Dr. Stéphane Lemire is an internist-geriatrician who left his hospital practice in Quebec City to found the AGES Foundation in 2012 and launch a social geriatrics pilot project in 2014 in collaboration with a local community health clinic.
Jacques Beaulieu is the author and co-author of a number of books on health and other topics published by Les Éditions Logiques, Stanké and Trécarré.
This complete, accessible guide presents the holistic medical approach to aging behind geriatrician Dr. Stéphane Lemire's inspiring social geriatrics project. Dr. Lemire sets out to deflate all our preconceived ideas about aging by proving how we can remain highly functional at the most advanced of ages. He takes an empathetic approach to explaining physical concerns including mobility, osteoporosis, fragility syndrome, nutrition, drugs and medication follow-up and the combined effects of polymedication as well as exploring mental aspects such as cognitive loss, psychological factors including grief and loneliness and material concerns such as managing personal finances and assets. According to the authors, when an elderly person begins to lose autonomy, it is important to start asking questions, determine the causes and try to address or reverse these concerns when possible.
EXCERPT
As time goes by, seniors can often expect to develop a range of chronic ailments and take medication as a result. When treated one by one, these issues are easy to control, biologically speaking. However, that doesn't necessarily mean the medication in question will have a beneficial effect on our functional capacity, because they may sometimes or often have undesirable side effects that actually bring about a functional decline. This book looks at the subject of pathological aging through the lens of the symptoms experienced by seniors, rather than taking an approach centred around the optimal treatment for each individual chronic illness from wich they may be suffering. The idea is to help seniors and their caregivers determine more easily
what might be bothering them. The book then aims to foster an understanding of what is happening, with a view to finding answers to one simple question: what are these symptoms a sign of? Because it's always asier to solve a problem when you know what caused it.
AUTHORS
Dr. Stéphane Lemire is an internist-geriatrician who left his hospital practice in Quebec City to found the AGES Foundation in 2012 and launch a social geriatrics pilot project in 2014 in collaboration with a local community health clinic.
Jacques Beaulieu is the author and co-author of a number of books on health and other topics published by Les Éditions Logiques, Stanké and Trécarré.
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Published 2019-09-01 by Trécarré |