The Challenge of a Lifetime: Aging Well--Stakes High to Help Those.... Sandi Doughton.
by Doughton, Sandi; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 41Family. Publisher: The Seattle Times, 2003ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Aging | Chronic diseases | Health behavior -- Age factors | Older people -- Diseases | Older people -- Health and hygiene | Quality of lifeDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Lois Stolle wasn't aging well. Not even 60 years old, the Seattle woman had twice collapsed in a diabetic coma, saved from death only by timely visits from friends and relatives. At high risk of blindness, stroke and heart attack because she couldn't keep her blood sugar under control, Stolle shuttled in and out of hospitals. When the ravages of her diabetes and congestive heart failure left her unable to walk or care for herself, she wound up in a nursing home....On the cusp of an unprecedented age boom, America can't afford its elderly to be as sick as Stolle was." (THE SEATTLE TIMES) This article examines the national movement to help people "who suffer from incurable, long-term diseases stay healthier as they age."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: The Challenge of a Lifetime: Aging Well--Stakes High to Help Those..., Nov. 11, 2003; pp. A1+.
"Lois Stolle wasn't aging well. Not even 60 years old, the Seattle woman had twice collapsed in a diabetic coma, saved from death only by timely visits from friends and relatives. At high risk of blindness, stroke and heart attack because she couldn't keep her blood sugar under control, Stolle shuttled in and out of hospitals. When the ravages of her diabetes and congestive heart failure left her unable to walk or care for herself, she wound up in a nursing home....On the cusp of an unprecedented age boom, America can't afford its elderly to be as sick as Stolle was." (THE SEATTLE TIMES) This article examines the national movement to help people "who suffer from incurable, long-term diseases stay healthier as they age."
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