![]() ![]() As the elderly became more financially independent due to pensions, they found freedom in retirement communities and being able to live away from children. Historically, living with family in old age has been more common, but as people live longer, it has created tensions between parents and children over how each can live. ![]() Alice, by contrast, has lived alone for almost three decades after her husband died of a heart attack when she was 56. Sitaram lives to 110-at the end of his life, he is cared for by his family even as he insists on still running his farm in India. In the first chapter, Gawande highlights two different cases of aging: his wife’s grandmother Alice, and his own paternal grandfather Sitaram. Gawande aims to explore how the experience of aging and dying has changed, and how it might be improved. He writes that while medicine allows people to live longer and better, it turns aging and death into medical processes. Atul Gawande explains that, as a medical student, he was never really taught to help patients cope with death-only how to save lives. ![]()
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