摘要
Hardly any comprehensive geriatrician finds himself completely comfortable in dealing with an incurable malady and dealing with its sufferer's questions as well as in comforting expected survivors; but that therapist can find substantial help in this tiny, easy-to-read discussion of cases involving all of those problems. Although cancer seems to be the most frequent predicament, and the most frequent one described here, the contributors include those of cardiac, respiratory and other origins too.