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Medical care can be wearying and time-consuming, especially for seniors. Researchers are beginning to quantify the burdens.<\/p>\n

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Deana Hendrickson sometimes feels daunted by the demands of the medical system. \u201cEvery body part has a doctor,\u201d she lamented. \u201cI hate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Hendrickson reeled off a long list of her health care providers: a primary care doctor; a cardiologist, because she has mild heart disease and a concerning family history; a lung surgeon and a pulmonologist who oversee an annual scan because of her family history of lung cancer.<\/p>\n

Plus an ophthalmologist, a gynecologist, a urologist, a podiatrist, a gastroenterologist \u2014 \u201cand I just came back from the dentist.\u201d<\/p>\n

She estimates that with scans, imaging and tests, she spends two dozen days a year engaged with some sort of provider. Most of them, she added, practice in Santa Monica, Calif., where she used to live, now an hour\u2019s drive from her home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At 65, providing five-day-a-week care (with her husband) for three grandsons under 5, she\u2019s reasonably healthy and active. But her regimen \u201cmakes me feel like a sick person,\u201d Ms. Hendrickson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m like an older car that always needs more maintenance. There\u2019s so many other things I\u2019d rather be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Medical care can be wearying and time-consuming, especially for seniors. Researchers are beginning to quantify the burdens.Deana Hendrickson sometimes feels daunted by the demands of the medical system. \u201cEvery body part has a doctor,\u201d she lamented. \u201cI hate it.\u201dMs. Hendrickson reeled off a long list of her health care providers: a primary care doctor; a cardiologist, because she has mild heart disease and a concerning family history; a lung surgeon and a pulmonologist who oversee an annual scan because of her family history of lung cancer.Plus an ophthalmologist, a gynecologist, a urologist, a podiatrist, a gastroenterologist \u2014 \u201cand I just came back from the dentist.\u201dShe estimates that with scans, imaging and tests, she spends two dozen days a year engaged with some sort of provider. Most of them, she added, practice in Santa Monica, Calif., where she used to live, now an hour\u2019s drive from her home.At 65, providing five-day-a-week care (with her husband) for three grandsons under 5, she\u2019s reasonably healthy and active. But her regimen \u201cmakes me feel like a sick person,\u201d Ms. Hendrickson said.\u201cI\u2019m like an older car that always needs more maintenance. There\u2019s so many other things I\u2019d rather be doing.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17125,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17126,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123\/revisions\/17126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}