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Challenges of an aging society : ethical dilemmas, political issues
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Challenges of an aging society : ethical dilemmas, political issues

Author: Rachel Pruchno; Michael A Smyer
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"In this collection, some of the best minds in gerontology and bioethics explore the ethical, social, and political challenges of an aging society. A unique combination of disciplines and perspectives from economics to nursing, psychology to theology - this synthesis of theory and practice provides frameworks and analyses for considering the ethical issues of both individual and societal aging." "The contributors  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Rachel Pruchno; Michael A Smyer
ISBN: 9780801886485 0801886481
OCLC Number: 76820914
Description: xi, 448 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The legal aspects of end-of-life decision making / Nancy Neveloff Dubler --
Assessing competency to make medical decisions at the end of life: clinician and patient issues / Daniel C. Marson --
The ethics of long-term care: recasting the policy discourse / Charles J. Fahey --
Religiosity and spirituality at the end of life: challenges and opportunities / Lucy Feild --
The family and the future: challenges, prospects, and resilience / Norella M. Putney, Vern L. Bengtson, and Melanie A. Wakeman --
Long-term care, feminism, and an ethics of solidarity / Martha B. Holstein --
Aging, generational opposition, and the future of the family / H. Rick Moody --
Minority elders in the United States: implications for public policy / Kyriakos S. Markides and Steven P. Wallace. Allocating resources for lifelong learning for older adults / Ronald J. Manheimer --
Transforming age-based policies to meet fluid life-course needs / W. Andrew Achenbaum and Thomas R. Cole --
The political paradoxes of thinking outside the life-cycle boxes / Robert B. Hudson --
Is responsibility across generations politically feasible? / Robert H. Binstock --
Social security reform and responsibility across the generations: framing the debate / John B. Williamson --
Setting the agenda for Social Security reform / Eric R. Kingson --
A summary of Saving Social Security: a balanced approach / Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag --
Assessing the returns from the new Medicare drug benefit / Bruce Stuart --
Prescription drugs and elders in the twenty-first century / Christine E. Bishop.
Responsibility: edited by Rachel A. Pruchno and Michael A. Smyer.
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An excellent book... Will be exceedingly helpful to clinicians and nonclinicians who are involved in the development of public policy. JAMA 2008 Easily readable and well referenced... It is an Read more...

 
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