(PR NewsChannel) / July 25, 2012 / NEW YORK

"Aging, Health Care, and You!: A Doctor's Personal Prescription for Understanding and Improving Your Health Care" by Dr. Martin S. Finkelstein

In Aging, Health Care and You!: A Doctors Personal Prescription for Understanding and Improving Your Health Care (ISBN 1470061945), Dr. Martin S. Finkelstein has penned an informative book that helps seniors adjust to the medical realities of aging in America.

In todays health care system, office or clinic visits may allow patients only 10-15 minutes of face-time with the doctor, says Finkelstein. This is far too little time to address the multiple complex medical problems that confound the elderly. Finkelstein wrote this guide to fill the many gaps in their knowledge, and to help them understand whats happening in their medical lives. This book confronts the complexity of health care for the elderly, including how to navigate treatment, medical care, hospitals and medical insurance.

His new guide confronts the realities of the complex health care system, which seniors rely on even as it is radically different from the doctoring system they knew in their younger years. The neighborhood doctor who made house calls and knew all the details of the family he served is long gone. In his place is a faceless system of testing, procedures and treatments with endless variations of payment and insurance coverage. When they need health care the most, many aging adults find themselves unable to understand the system of modern medical care delivery.

Finkelstein specializes in geriatric medicine and has 37 years of experience in the field. In this book, he puts down on paper many of his observations about the typical health problems seniors face as they age. He discusses the most common situations they will face in doctors offices and hospital rooms. Offering advice and guidance to the elderlys most common medical issues, this volume condenses what his patients have taught him over the years.

Aging, Health Care and You! will be valued by aging Americans for its ability to make sense of a health care system that often seems senseless. Direct, informative and told with a light touch, this book is an invaluable guide to consuming health care for elderly persons.

Aging, Health Care and You!: A Doctors Personal Prescription for Understanding and Improving Your Health Care is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.

About the Author: For the past 37 years, board-certified internist Dr. Martin S. Finkelstein has practiced medicine and geriatrics in New York. He is also an assistant professor at New York Universitys Langone Medical Center. New York Magazine has labeled him as one of the Best Doctors in New York. He earned his medical degree from NYU School of Medicine and did post-graduate training at Bellevue Hospital in New York and Stanford-Palo Alto Medical Center in California.

MEDIA CONTACT Dr. Martin S. Finkelstein E-mail: mfinkelstein@acuma-nyc.com Phone: (646) 370-2030 Website:www.aginghealthandyou.com

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Doctor teaches elderly how to navigate their health in new guide