Reviews tagging 'Dementia'

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

10 reviews

isabellew6's review

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Chronic illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Grief and Dementia

Minor: Suicide

brooklynchaise's review

informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Very informative and perspective changing. It challenged me to think about mortality and the things that make life worth living, especially at the end. I will definitely recommend this book to others and reflect on its contents as I and my family grow older 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, Cancer, Terminal illness, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Dementia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Drug use, and Vomit

vivj's review

informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cancer, and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Dementia, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Vomit, and Medical content

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Warning: do not listen to this audiobook while driving you will tear up 

I found this to be a seamless blend of Dr. Gawande’s personal and professional experiences with end of life care for the elderly and terminally ill. The kindness and compassion shown is moving and makes you really think about how you would want to spend the last months of your life and what really matters to you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Grief, Medical content, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Medical trauma, Suicide, and Terminal illness

archer3's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Incredibly insightful and well-written. A thought-provoking work that everyone should read at least once. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use, Vomit, Dementia, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

norwegianforestreader's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Body horror, Blood, Cancer, Death, Excrement, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Death of parent, Dementia, and Grief

gtrue21's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide, Abandonment, Ableism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Cancer, Death of parent, Dementia, Death, Confinement, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, and Forced institutionalization

jmcordero's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness

Minor: Abandonment, Ableism, Colonisation, and Forced institutionalization

kierscrivener's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

 This was an incredible book that is about geriatrics and dying, but focused most profoundly on how our approach of healthcare and medicine fails us by being focused on fixing instead of helping and how care for elderly, disabled and palliative patients undermine their dignity and wellness for the sake of efficiency. It raises a lot of questions around whether doing everything is the best option and how by ignoring the inevitability of death we rob the sick from what they want in their last days and their loved ones from proper conversations and closure. I highly recommend it to those who work in medicine and helping professions as well as anyone with aging family. But most of all to everyone as all of us will come to face mortality in both our own lives and those we love and this is a guide to conversations discussions that we often neglect. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Child death, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Dementia, and Cancer

katrinarose's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Dementia, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness

Minor: Blood, Excrement, and Suicide