Everyone needs a Strategy for Long Life, and Dr. Caplan offers it. Breakthroughs in knowledge about the cells that make up our bodies are bringing about new ways to keep healthy, to control and even stop disease before irreversible harm is caused. It is possible to be fit and healthy much longer into life, and, in fact, to actually live longer, healthier.The ability to prolong healthy lifespan can radically change your life in myriad ways. What you can expect from your health care ...

Society, as a whole is getting older. Thanks to the extraordinary advances in technology and medicine, humans are now living longer than ever before, and are shifting the demographic make-up on a worldwide scale.As a result, more and more of us are living and engaging with an aging population in both our personal and professional lives, and there’s a heightened demand for concrete research and advice for how to effectively provide care for this growing demo...

Society, as a whole is getting older. Thanks to the extraordinary advances in technology and medicine, humans are now living longer than ever before, and are shifting the demographic make-up on a worldwide scale.As a result, more and more of us are living and engaging with an aging population in both our personal and professional lives, and there’s a heightened demand for concrete research and advice for how to effectively provide care for this growing demo...

Society, as a whole is getting older. Thanks to the extraordinary advances in technology and medicine, humans are now living longer than ever before, and are shifting the demographic make-up on a worldwide scale.As a result, more and more of us are living and engaging with an aging population in both our personal and professional lives, and there’s a heightened demand for concrete research and advice for how to effectively provide care for this growing demo...

Crucial information for those who care, provide, create, and build for our rapidly growing-and cherished-senior population.Society as a whole is getting older. As a result, more and more of us are living and engaging with an aging population in both our personal and professional lives, and there's a heightened demand for concrete research and advice on how to effectively provide care for this growing demographic.The Care of the Older Person bring...

The second edition of Long Life Strategy builds upon the practical tips and knowledge in the first edition by providing readers with an outline to living a longer, healthier, more enjoyable life and late life. The book elaborates on three major areas, which include what you can do to live a long life, what your doctor should be doing to help you achieve this goal, and what society, of which we are all part, should be doing to better accommodate a growing number of older people in the comin...

For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program’s 40th anniversary, executive producer Bernie Lucht has selected the most striking interviews and lectures for Ideas: Brilliant Thinker Speak Their Minds. Featuring some the best thinkers from North America and around the world that have appeared on the program since its beginnings in 1965, Ideas: Bri...

Ronald Caplan’s account of his search for song and obituary poetry and the tools for community survival in northern Cape Breton, as he learned about the in-home singing tradition and the community’s extraordinary devotion to the poet Andrew Dunphy—a person who might in other places have been an outcast. A hundred years before, Dunphy roamed northern Cape Breton, sharing the news, nursing the sick, often caring for small children. And he wrote magnificent obituary poems that, with great res...

„Strategien für ein langes Leben“ ist ein Leitfaden für ein längeres, gesünderes Leben im Alter. Das Buch erläutert drei wichtige Bereiche: Was Sie tun können, um ein langes Leben zu führen, was Ihr Arzt tun sollte, um Ihnen zu helfen, dieses Ziel zu erreichen, und was die Gesellschaft, zu der wir alle gehören, tun sollte, um eine wachsende Anzahl älterer Menschen in den kommenden Jahrzehnten besser zu unterstützen.Dr. Caplan erläutert, was es bedeutet, ein längeres Leben zu führen...

In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. McCartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and religion that address the ethical challenges raised by organ transplantation. Caplan's new lead essay explains the shortfalls of present policies. From there, book sections take an interdisciplinary approach to fundamental issues like the determination of death and the dead donor rule; the divis...

A thoughtful, poignant look at the AIDS crisis in the United States that includes primary source interviews, history, medical research, and cultural touchpoints.The AIDS crisis in America is complex and composed of countless individual stories of grief, love, and advocacy. Its history shows the power of youth activism, how creativity and community can be vehicles for social change, and how bigotry and misinformation led to inequality in care.The early days ...

The fifth edition of this widely used book by caregivers brings to you updated and revised content, built on the basic understanding that medicine does not work in a vacuum, but rather alongside other disciplines to provide the environment for a healthy and fulfilling long life. Edited by alumni and senior faculty at McGill University, with international contributions, this book advocates the achievement of better, longer, satisfying, and more productive lives for older persons. It is a he...