A world growing old : the coming health care challenges / edited by Daniel Callahan, Ruud H.J. ter Meulen, Eva Topinková.
| Uniform Title: | Hastings Center studies in ethics.
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
[1995], ©1995.
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| Series: | Hastings Center studies in ethics.
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- How we care for the elderly / Mark J. Hanson
- The meaning of old age : scenarios for the future / Harry R. Moody
- Aging and the life cycle : a moral norm? / Daniel Callahan
- Life extension and the meaning of life / Paul van Tongeren
- Will there be a scarcity of resources? : the future demand for care by the elderly / Anneke van den Berg Jeths and Mats Thorslund
- Effects of population aging on health care expenditure and financing : some illustrations / Reiner Leidl
- Caring for the elderly : priorities for an aging population / Mats Thorslund and Marti G. Parker
- Solidarity with the elderly and the allocation of resources / Ruud H.J. ter Meulen.
- The elderly and high-technology therapies / Bryan Jennett
- The meaning of old age impeded by chronic disease / Gebhard Allert ... [et al.]
- - Family caregiving for the elderly : are there ways to meet the need? / Eva Topinková
- Adult daughter caregivers : philosophical analysis and implications for health care policy / Sarah-Vaughan Brakman
- Institutional care of the elderly : lessons from Hungary / Bela Blasszauer
- From generation to generation : why U.S. health care reform is so difficult in the twentieth century / W. Andrew Achenbaum
- What do we owe the elderly? : allocating social and health care resources / Ruud H.J. ter Meulen, Eva Topinková, and Daniel Callahan.