The medical label “adult failure to thrive” or “FTT” reeks of ageism, undertreatment, and medicine’s tendency to blame the victim.

Among the contributing causes of death, was “adult failure to thrive.” His first reaction was to laugh. Those words made it sound like the illness had been his dad’s fault. As if old age were a test his father had failed.

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