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Gillick, Muriel Ruth was born on May 14, 1951 in New York City. Daughter of Peter H. and Ilse (Wulff) Garfunkel.
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Tangled Minds: Understanding Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias
(Alzheimer's is the most common form of the mental degener...)
Alzheimer's is the most common form of the mental degeneration that has struck more than 4 million of America's elderly. Yet, as Dr. Muriel R. Gillick convincingly demonstrates, confusion and loss of memory in any form is a disease known as dementia, and not an inevitable part of aging. Tangled Minds provides a comprehensive overview of dementia, its history, the politics of its fight for recognition, its pathology, the research being done to ascertain its causes, and the treatments now being used to ameliorate its symptoms. Weaving these details around the story of the decline of one Alzheimer's patient, Gillick provides a human interest story that is also an analytical study. Lucid on medical details while fully capturing the pathos of dementia with insight and compassion, Tangled Minds will be an invaluable resource for family, friends, caregivers, and professionals dealing with Alzheimer's and similar disorders. •Dementia has affected 4 million Americans. •As baby boomers age they want information about the disease that will increasingly affect their lives. •Muriel Gillick's book is more comprehensive and thoughtful than the conventional self-help books available on the subject.
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Choosing Medical Care in Old Age: What Kind, How Much, When to Stop (Paperback) - Common
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This text, drawn from the experiences of a physician specializing in geriatric and ethical medicine, contains a collection of stories that help develop guidelines for critical medical decision-making for the elderly and their relatives.
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Choosing Medical Care in Old Age: What Kind, How Much, When to Stop
( You are old, ill, in pain, and your doctor asks you wha...)
You are old, ill, in pain, and your doctor asks you what you want to do about it. You may be uncertain but you're definitely not alone. By the year 2020, some 50 million Americans will be over sixty-five, and as the nation ages we must all ask what we ought to do about the health and medical care of our elderly. Our response will have profound consequences, not just for individuals and families, but for society as a whole. This book helps us start to form an answer. To make decisions about medical care in old age, we need to know more about the reality of being elderly and sick, and Choosing Medical Care in Old Age gives us the opportunity. Muriel Gillick, a noted physician who specializes in the care of the elderly and in medical ethics, presents a panoply of stories drawn from her clinical experience. These encounters, with the robust and the frail, the demented and the dying, capture the texture of the experience of being old and faced with critical medical questions. From the stories of older people struggling to make choices in the face of acute illness, stories that are often poignant and sometimes tragic, Gillick develops broad guidelines for medical decision–making for the elderly. Within this framework, she confronts particular concerns and questions. When are certain procedures too burdensome to be justified? What are unacceptable risks? Should family members serve as exclusive spokespersons for relatives who can no longer speak for themselves? Gillick's bold and personal prescription for medical care for the elderly calls for a change in the way medicine is understood and practiced, as well as for changes in the institutions that serve the elderly, such as hospitals and nursing homes. An intelligent and deeply compassionate inquiry into the difficult issues and real–life dilemmas raised by current practices, her book offers a first step toward those changes.
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Muriel Ruth Gillick
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Bachelor, Swarthmore College, 1972; postgraduate, Columbia University, 1973; Doctor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 1978.
Career
Staff physician, Bunker Hill Health Center/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1982-1987;
staff physician, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987-1992;
staff physician, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged, Boston, since 1992;
director geriatrics fellowship program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, since 1996. Consultant in geriatrics Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1984-1987. Senior fellow Harvard Medical School, 1989-1991.
Assistant professor medicine Harvard Medical School, since 1993.
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Choosing Medical Care in Old Age: What Kind, How Much, When to Stop (Paperback) - Common
(This text, drawn from the experiences of a physician spec...)
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Tangled Minds: Understanding Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias
(Alzheimer's is the most common form of the mental degener...)
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Choosing Medical Care in Old Age: What Kind, How Much, When to Stop
( You are old, ill, in pain, and your doctor asks you wha...)
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Choosing Medical Care in Old Age: What Kind, How Much, When to Stop (Paperback) - Common
Membership
Member American College of Physicians, American Geriatrics Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
Married Laurence S. Gillick, June 18, 1972. Children: Daniel, Jeremy, Jonathan.
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American