Many women feel that they have to resign themselves to illness and infirmity as they age but that need not inevitably be the case. Prevention is better than intervention; and since the health care system is focused more on interventions rather than prevention, it is up to us to do that latter job.
- We need to change our attitudes to health care according to the author of “Why Our Health Matters: A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future” and “Healthy Aging.”
- The answer to a lot of problems is to recognize that there is a mind – body connection that is helped by integrative medicine.
- Lifestyle choices also impact the way that the body ages and how disease affects it.
- Alternative practices such as yoga and tai chi can help us avoid prescription drugs and it is perhaps this approach to healing that will be the “future of medicine”
- The focus should be on enabling the body to heal and repair itself which can help to separate the process of aging from disease.