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Gerontology: Ageing more gracefully

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Linda Geddes is moved by an insider's take on how doctors and geriatric-care systems are failing old people and the dying.

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  1. Linda Geddes is a freelance science writer in Bristol, UK, and a consultant to New Scientist magazine.,

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