title: This chronic patient becomes a humanistic patient who helps clinicians.
abstract: A historian of aging, privileged to work with an interdisciplinary team of caregivers and researchers in a division of geriatric and palliative care of a major medical school and teaching hospital, discovers that his history of chronic illnesses secures him a useful role as a humanistic patient who helps clinicians to respond to the concerns, fears, and needs of aging Boomers.
authors.affiliation: Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77006, USA. wachenba@central.uh.edu
authors.forename: W Andrew
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Achenbaum
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005853:Geriatrics; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010166:Palliative Care; D010348:Patient Care Team; D029181:Spirituality