What geriatricians do — bolster our resilience in old age, our capacity to weather what comes — is both difficult and unappealingly limited. It requi… - Atul Gawande

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What geriatricians do — bolster our resilience in old age, our capacity to weather what comes — is both difficult and unappealingly limited. It requires attention to the body and its alterations. It requires vigilance over nutrition, medications, and living situations. And it requires each of us to contemplate the unfixables in our life, the decline we will unavoidably face, in order to make the small changes necessary to reshape it. When the prevailing fantasy is that we can be ageless, the geriatrician’s uncomfortable demand is that we accept we are not.