Dr Lucy Pollock: The book about getting older

Book club

More and more of us are living to a great age. But how do we give those we love, and eventually ourselves a chance to be older as happily and healthily as we possibly can?

Published

11 October 2024

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About

In the first of our book clubs, Dr Josephina Price discusses The Book About Getting Older: The essential comforting guide to ageing with wise advice for the highs and lows with author Dr Lucy Pollock. Lucy Pollock trained in medicine at Cambridge and at Bart's Hospital, and worked as a junior doctor in East London before moving to Somerset, where since 2001 she has been a consultant specialising in the care of those who are frail and elderly.