@article {Loxterkamp269, author = {David Loxterkamp}, title = {The Old Duffers{\textquoteright} Club}, volume = {7}, number = {3}, pages = {269--272}, year = {2009}, doi = {10.1370/afm.977}, publisher = {The Annals of Family Medicine}, abstract = {As baby boomers move toward retirement and nursing home care, medicine can no longer ignore the daunting task of caring for the aged. The physical and emotional challenges are enormous{\textemdash}and shocking{\textemdash}especially for a culture that prefers to jump rather than wade into the experience of old age. A new book by Dennis McCullough, My Mother, Your Mother, offers {\textquotedblleft}slow medicine{\textquotedblright} as a corrective to the quick, curative methods in which we were trained. A large part of the answer{\textemdash}as I was taught by the members of the Old Duffers{\textquoteright} Club{\textemdash}lies simply in self-support, conversation and friendship, accepting our physical decay, and finding the inner gift of ourselves that never grows old.}, issn = {1544-1709}, URL = {https://www.annfammed.org/content/7/3/269}, eprint = {https://www.annfammed.org/content/7/3/269.full.pdf}, journal = {The Annals of Family Medicine} }