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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Callahan, Daniel, 1930-2019 (Editor ), Meulen, R. H. J. ter (Ruud H. J.), 1952- (Editor ), Topinková, Eva (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©1995.
Colección:Hastings Center studies in ethics.
Temas:
Older people > Medical care > Social aspects.
Older people > Medical care > Government policy.
Older people > Medical care > Moral and ethical aspects.
Older people.
Medical care.
Medical policy.
National health services.
Sociology.
Aged
Delivery of Health Care
Health Policy
Health Services
Sociology
Aged, 80 and over
State Medicine
Patient Care
Personnes âgées > Soins médicaux > Aspect social.
Personnes âgées > Soins médicaux > Politique gouvernementale.
Personnes âgées > Soins médicaux > Aspect moral.
Personnes âgées.
Prestation de soins.
Politique sanitaire.
Services de santé.
Sociologie.
Soins médicaux.
elderly.
sociology.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
Medical care
Medical policy
National health services
Older people
Medizinische Versorgung
Gesundheitsökonomie
Aufsatzsammlung
Sozialethik
Gesundheitspolitik
Alter
Veroudering (demografie)
Gezondheidszorg.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 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.

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