'Getting old is inevitable, but becoming frail is not,' says Dr. Karen Humphreys.
Dr. Karen Humphreys, a clinical instructor at UBC’s faculty of medicine, said it took her just 11 days to write the Mission of Maya and Methuselah.
“What I found in the last probably 10 years, and especially working in smaller hospitals, that the people that kept presenting were really quite frail and even though we identified that they were frail, and we had sort of an interim plan in place for them to go home, they came back more frail, and more frail,” she explains. “And then they eventually passed on.”“Getting old is inevitable, but becoming frail is not,” she says.
Who should read this book? The book is for really, anyone over the age of 40 and that usually encompasses either children or grandchildren of aging people. Or if you're starting to think about your future, you're getting near the end of your work life, maybe you're thinking about, ‘What's my life gonna look like as we all get older in this population?' And so it can be for family members, or individuals themselves.
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