quality health care for people of all ages—through universal, publicly funded health insurance.

Judith Steinberg Turiel, a freelance medical writer with an Ed.D. from Harvard, is author of Beyond Second Opinions: Making Choices about Fertility Treatment (1998) and coauthor of Preventing Preterm Birth: A Parent's Guide (1988). She was research liaison for DES Action, worked with the Coalition for the Medical Rights of Women, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for LifeLong Medical Care in Berkeley, CA.

"Our Parents, Ourselves is the best presentation of our aging, and of general healthcare issues that I have ever seen. Tremendously important."—Henrik Blum, M.D., MPH, Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

"This book could well transform how we as a country address aging and caregiving for generations tocome."—Lynn Friss Feinberg, MSW, Deputy Director, National Center on Caregiving at Family Caregiver Alliance

"Turiel's book can help elders and their families find humane care in our often inhumane and uncaring health care system."— Steffi Woolhandler, co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program