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A world growing old : the coming health care challenges /

For much of the developed world, health care for a surging elderly population looms as one of the most daunting problems of the coming decade. In A World Growing Old, contributors from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and countries discuss resource allocation for the elderly and debate plans for the...

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Други автори: Callahan, Daniel, 1930-, Meulen, R. H. J. ter 1952-, Topinkova, Eva.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ℗♭1995.
Серия: Hastings Center studies in ethics.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21677
Подобни документи: Print version:: World growing old.
Съдържание:
  • 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 [and others]
  • Family caregiving for the elderly : are there ways to meet the need? /
  • Eva Topinkova
  • 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 Topinkova, and Daniel Callahan.