Slow Medicine and The Old Duffer's Club

Have just read the article it was so depressing it makes me think that we are all doddery oldies. I prefer the modern way of keeping old age at bay by ignoring it, wearing modern clothes, dying hair and doing the things we have always done. Not slide slowly onto decline.

I must admit I didn't find the article exactly uplifting...

I liked this bit the physical and emotional challenges are enormous—and shocking—especially for a culture that prefers to jump rather than wade into the experience of old age. A large part of the answer — lies simply in self-support, conversation and friendship, accepting our physical decay, and finding the inner gift of ourselves that never grows old.

Maybe a bit heavy for a Sunday night I'll concede that.

I really do think that Americans are more obsessed with their health than
we are !

I buy magazines to read round the pool when I am Stateside and they are more full of health
advice than ours are !!

Mind you they have a lot more hidden sugar in their diet than we do and it is not good for you

I see this article is a few years old and I don't go along with the American way of medicalising their lives. Having spent over 30 years in nursing I believe in active work on your own health status and if you do have a long term condition like I have manage it as best you can then ignore it and don't bore others with it. You are supposed to have it (the condition) its not supposed to have you.