Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by AtulGawande

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by AtulGawande
Question: Please use at least 3 theories and apply them to Chapter 1 , 2  of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.

 

Piaget’s Cognitive Theory

Stage Theory of Cognitive Development (Piaget)

 

Skinner / Operant Contitioning

https://www.verywell.com/operant-conditioning-a2-2794863

 

Bandura / Social Learning Theory / Social Cognitive Learning Theory

https://www.verywell.com/social-learning-theory-2795074

 

Maslow’s Theory of Hierarchy of Needs

http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

by AtulGawande

The Independent Self

Growing up, I never witnessed serious illness or the difficulties of old age. My parents, both doctors, were fit and healthy. They were immigrants from India, raising me and my sister in the small college town of Athens, Ohio, so my grandparents were far away. The one elderly person I regularly encountered was a woman down the street who gave me piano lessons when I was in middle school. Later she got sick and had to move away, but it didn’t occur to me to wonder where she went and what happened to her. The experience of a modern old age was entirely outside my perception.
In college, however, I began dating a girl in my dorm named Kathleen, and in 1985, on a Christmas visit to her home in Alexandria, Virginia, I met her grandmother Alice Hobson, who was seventy-seven at the time. She struck me as spirited and independent minded. She never tried to disguise her age. Her undyed white hair was brushed straight and parted on one side, Bette Davis–style. Her hands were speckled with age spots, and her skin was crinkled. She wore simple, neatly pressed blouses and dresses, a bit of lipstick, and heels long past when others would have considered it advisable.
As I came to learn over the years—for I would eventually marry Kathleen—Alice grew up in a rural Pennsylvania town known for its flower and mushroom farms. Her father was a flower farmer, growing carnations, marigolds, and dahlias, in acres of greenhouses. Alice and her siblings were the first members of their family to attend college. At the University of Delaware, Alice met Richmond Hobson, a civil engineering student. Thanks to the Great Depression, it wasn’t until six years after their graduation that they could afford to get married