A world growing old the coming health care challenges
Record details
- ISBN: 0878406328
- ISBN: 9780585225487 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0585225486 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 175 p.) : ill.
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electronic resource - Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c1995.
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General Note: | Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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