Dr Lucy Pollock – The Golden Rule – Lessons in Living
24th October @ 11:00 – 12:00
Today, we are living longer lives, and have choices now as never before about how we will age. What will make us happy? What are we frightened of? What might allay those fears? What changes, made right now, will help us to flourish as we age? This book contains lessons learned from thirty years of working with older people and those close to them. It looks at problems that can be fixed with tests and tablets, and problems that require a different sort of medicine. Dr Lucy Pollock explains what she has been taught about loss, about impossible families, about becoming older without children, and the things she has learned about sexuality, race, love, and living with uncertainty.
Lucy believes the power has been in the wrong place for too long – medical teams have not always heard the voices of older people or those who love them. But if we are given power to influence the lives of our future selves, how best shall we use it? What do we want? What difference can we make? This is the moment for us to act, to set in place a better society for older people, and to build the future we want for ourselves.
Lucy Pollock trained at Cambridge and at Bart’s Hospital and is now a Consultant Geriatrician in Somerset. She has been working with older people for 30 years, and has learned useful things about life from a great many older people. She is the author of The Book About Getting Older.
Tickets £12.00 (£8.00 Students)
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