Sick to Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore! Reforming Health Care for the Last Years of Life.

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Lynn, Joanne. Sick to Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore! Reforming Health Care for the Last Years of Life. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2004.

In this call for health care reform, the author argues that our current health care system developed at a time when life was generally short, serious illnesses and disabilities were common at every age, and dying was quick. Today, most Americans live a long life, with the disabilities and discomforts of progressive chronic illness appearing only during the final years. This book argues that health care and community services are not set up to meet the needs of the large number of people who face a prolonged period of...