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Contents	Page
Author's Note	p. xi
Prologue: Finding Our Better Selves	p. 3
Chapter 1 - The Early Heroic Rush	p. 16
Chapter 2 - The Myth of Assisted Living	p. 33
Chapter 3 - The Vestiges of Family Medicine	p. 53
Chapter 4 - A Job for Professionals	p. 72
Chapter 5 - The Best Doctors Money Can Buy	p. 92
Chapter 6 - September Eleventh	p. 110
Chapter 7 - September Twelfth	p. 128
Chapter 8 - The Biology, Sociology, and Psychology of Aging	p. 145
Chapter 9 - A Nursing Home Thanksgiving	p. 168
Chapter 10 - The Make-A-Wish Foundation	p. 185
Chapter 11 - Follow the Money	p. 201
Chapter 12 - Therapeutic Fibs	p. 219
Chapter 13 - Cruel Sorting	p. 239
Chapter 14 - As Complicated as a Rubik's Cube	p. 252
Chapter 15 - The Time for Talking	p. 268
Chapter 16 - N-O-W	p. 286
Chapter 17 - Dying Days	p. 300
Chapter 18 - Orphans	p. 312
Epilogue: Lost and Found	p. 320
Resources
Government sites
General Information and Research
Housing, Care Management, and Other Services
Caregiving
Legal and Financial
End of Life
Advocacy
Alzheimer's Disease
Other Diseases
Aging in Place
Miscellaneous	p. 323
Acknowledgments	p. 333
Index	p. 337

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