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- Planning for the Future
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- Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD, and Malin Dollinger, MD
- Adapted for the Canadian edition by Mary Vachon,
- RN, PhD
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- "The best way to get something done is to begin."
- —Elmo A. Petterle
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- The chances for living a long and healthy life
- are now greater than ever before. Age is just
- a number that measures time. As George
- Burns said, "You're not old until the candles
- on your birthday cake cost more than the
- cake."
- Today, we have better nutrition, better
- physical fitness, improved living conditions,
- new drugs, new advances in medical science such
- as transplants, bypasses and other life-prolonging