NON-FICTION: Informative and insightful, this is the essential family guide to preparing for ageing parents.
With medical advances, active lifestyles and healthy diets, getting older is not always a downhill journey.
Award-winning author, social commentator, and political activist, Barbara Ehrenreich, investigates how ‘wellness’ has replaced ‘health’ (ie not being sick), persuading us that we need to have regular check-ups and tests in spite of little or no scientific evidence to show there are any real benefits.
The beautiful soft skin we were born with deteriorates over time and is subject to damaging UV rays, pollution, dehydration and free radicals. Luckily, help is at hand!