'The most important book about the second half of your life you'll ever read. I wish everyone
in the UK could be under Dr Lucy's care but this is the next best thing' SANDI TOKSVIG'This
warm and compassionate book gets to the heart of older age. Using stories and accessible
explanations it covers issues of declining health quality of life and choices about the
things that matter most' THE BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY ____Now more than ever we need to talk
about getting older.Many of us are living to a very great age. But how do we give those we love
and eventually ourselves long lives that are as happy and healthy as possible?Dr Lucy's book
gives us answers to the questions we can voice - and those that we can't.A long life should be
embraced and celebrated but it's not all easy. Yet even the most challenging situation can be
helped by the right conversation.How do we start? · How do we ask whether it's worth taking
seven different medicines? · Is it normal to find you're falling out of love with someone as
they disappear into dementia? · Should Dad be driving and if not who can stop him? · What are
the secrets of the best care homes? · When does fierce independence become bad behaviour? · How
do you navigate near-impossible discussions around resuscitation and intensity of treatments? ·
And who decides what happens when we become ill?Serious funny kind and knowledgeable this
readable book helps guide us through essential conversations about getting older that go
straight to the heart of what matters most.____'Wise brim-full of excellent advice and
thoughts from the frontline of caring for older people it's a book full of humour and
beautifully written' Kate Mosse'Dr Pollock writes with spirit and empathy making this an
engaging and thought-provoking read' Sunday Express'Serious funny kind and knowledgeable
this book helps guide us through essential conversations about issues of getting older' Eastern
Daily Press'Wise compassionate well researched and very broad in its coverage. I've learnt a
lot that will help me both as a doctor and a patient. Thank you' Dr Phil Hammond'Terrific . . .
I suggest we all get a copyof Dr Lucy's book' Evening Standard'Interesting and engaging . . .
The tone throughout is warm and friendly even as serious and dark subjects are under
discussion. It is an important book' Irish Times
