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Bătrânețea – haine grele, spune o vorbă din popor. Oamenii au căutat dintotdeauna tot felul de trucuri care să încetinească procesul ireversibil și înfricoșător al declinului psihic și fizic. Dar vremurile se schimbă și așteptările noastre devin tot mai optimiste. Vedem tot mai des oameni ajunși la pensie care sunt lipsiți de problemele specifice vârstei înaintate. Vestea bună este că se poate și mai bine.

Professor Rose Anne Kenny has 35 years of experience at the forefront of ageing medicine. In Age Proof, she draws on her own pioneering research and the latest evidence to demystify why we age and shows us that 80% of our ageing biology is within our control: we can not only live longer lives but become happier and healthier deep into our later years.

One fine April day, Mary Ann Kenny’s husband died suddenly while jogging near their family home. In the months that followed, Mary Ann – who had no history of mental illness – began suffering from depression, and then from a terrifying succession of physical and psychological symptoms, including the delusion that her young children had been harmed by her medications.

In Making Tough Decisions About End-of-Life Care in Dementia, Dr. Anne Kenny, a skilled palliative care physician, describes how to navigate the difficult journey of late-stage dementia with sensitivity, compassion, and common sense. Combining her personal experience caring for a mother with dementia with her medical expertise in both dementia and end-of-life care, Dr. Kenny helps the listener prepare for a family member's death while managing their own emotional health.