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The Evening of Life : The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well /
Although philosophy, religion, and civic cultures used to help people prepare for aging and dying well, this is no longer the case. Today, aging is frequently seen as a problem to be solved and death as a harsh reality to be masked. In part, our cultural confusion is rooted in an inadequate concepti...
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Notre Dame, Indiana :
University of Notre Dame Press,
[2020]
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Table des matières:
- Introduction: Toward an ethics of aging / Joseph E. Davis
- Part I. Our deficit model of aging
- Devalued status of old age / Joseph E. Davis
- Structural-ethical source of the matter: The medical-industrial complex / Sharon R. Kaufman
- Beyond avoidance and autonomy / Paul Scherz
- Part II. LIving old age well
- Epiphanies, small and large / Wilfred M. McClay
- Contraction of time and existential awakening: A phenomenology of authentic aging / Kevin Aho
- End of the story: A narrativist view of life's finale / Charles Guignon
- Happiness and aging: an unlikely combination? / Bryan S. Turner
- Part III. Old age that goes well
- Friendship, citizenship, and abandonment: older adults with dementia and without family caregivers / Janelle S. Taylor-- Priority of social and physical function: older adults in the CAPABLE program / Sarah L. Scanton and Janiece Taylor
- From diagnosis to person-focused prognosis: Toward a healthy political economy of Aging in America / Justin Mutter.