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A new book advises adult children and the friends and families of the elderly to go about caring for them differently. The physician-author calls his approach Slow Medicine.

In a column in The New York Times, by Abigail Zuger, M.D., the book’s author, Dennis McCullough, has this to say about adult children’s ability to assess their parents’ true condition.

“No one,” Dr. McCullough says, can be a bigger expert on a parent’s voice than a former teenager trained in the same household.”

The book: My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing “Slow Medicine,” the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones. By Dennis McCullough, M.D. Harper Collins. 263 pages. $25.95

Source: The New York Times, February 26, 2008