Abstract
Nowadays, the tendency of aging is getting more and more prominent all over the world. Experts do research and evaluate the physical and mental changes of the elderly. Atul Gawande, an American surgeon, shows his concern towards the elderly in his book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. He proposed a question:Medicine and what matters in the end? He attempts to appeal to the readers for the attention to psychological changes of the elderly. In this essay, I aim to give readers a brief review of the book and analyze the psychological shift of the older people.