The Aging Revolution Quotes

“illness and need palliative relief from suffering. Many common elements of palliative and geriatric medicine include diagnosis, identification of patient needs and sources of distress, creation of a care plan through shared decision-making, and helping people through their health care journey in a complex and confusing system.”
― Michael J. Dowling, The Aging Revolution: The History of Geriatric Health Care and What Really Matters to Older Adults

“Times reporter wrote that: “… under pressure to reduce costs while improving quality, a handful of hospital systems have embarked on an unusual experiment: they are taking the house call to the extreme, offering hospital-level treatment at home to patients … who in the past would have been routinely placed in a hospital room. And as awareness spreads of the dangers that hospitalization may pose, particularly to older adults, patients are enthusiastically seizing the opportunity …”
― Michael J. Dowling, The Aging Revolution: The History of Geriatric Health Care and What Really Matters to Older Adults