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Never before has aging been such an important topic. For, even as medical advances push …
So this is the way it unfolds. In the absence of what people like my grandfather could count on—a vast extended family constantly on hand to let him make his own choices—our elderly are left with a controlled and supervised institutional existence, a medically designed answer to unfixable problems, a life designed to be safe but empty of anything they care about.
p109, '4 Assistance' , 'Being Mortal', Profile Books, ISBN 978-1846685828 ― Atul Gawande
— being mortal by Atul Gawande (Page 109)